Re: [TCLCORE] TIP #291: Add the 'platform' Package to Tcl

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On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 11:32:15AM -0800, Andreas Kupries wrote:
> 
> > Well the code abouve works on all our boxes which include redhat, debian,
> > suse, etc.  And on the architectures.  Seems like the following would work
> > more generally (needs tweaking for /lib64):
> >
> > 	regexp {libc-[0-9]+\.[0-9]+} [glob /lib/libc-*] vers
> >
> > Lots less code and given that our stuff seems to work I suspect it's
> > safe.  Anyone see any reason why that wouldn't work?
> 
> My paranoia about file names getting manipulated to provide misleading version
> info.

Paranoia is good, we've got a lot of it here at BitMover.  But paranoia
with no basis needs to be traded off against a relatively large chunk
of code that could contain (or gain) bugs vs a tiny fragment of code
that is pretty obviously working on a wide set of platforms.
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