posix_uname

Description

array posix_uname ( void )

Returns a hash of strings with information about the system. The indices of the hash are

sysname - operating system name (e.g. Linux)
nodename - system name (e.g. valiant)
release - operating system release (e.g. 2.2.10)
version - operating system version (e.g. #4 Tue Jul 20 17:01:36 MEST 1999)
machine - system architecture (e.g. i586)
domainname - DNS domainname (e.g. example.com)

domainname is a GNU extension and not part of POSIX.1, so this field is only available on GNU systems or when using the GNU libc.

Posix requires that you must not make any assumptions about the format of the values, e.g. you cannot rely on three digit version numbers or anything else returned by this function.

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boards at gmail dot com
30-Jan-2006 01:24


Or, a simpler way to do that:



<?php

print_r(posix_uname());

?>



Should print something like:



Array

(

    [sysname] => Linux

    [nodename] => vaio

    [release] => 2.6.15-1-686

    [version] => #2 Tue Jan 10 22:48:31 UTC 2006

    [machine] => i686

)

sean at thedesignpeople dot com
10-Aug-2004 11:39


A simple example of how to loop thru and display the results of the posix_uname() function...



<?php

foreach(posix_uname() AS $key=>$value) {

    print $key .": ". $value ."<br>";

}

?>



The procedure above should return something similar to the following results:



sysname: Linux

nodename: node1

release: 2.4.26

version: #6 Mon Jun 14 19:07:27 PDT 2004

machine: i686

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