Question

How fast is php_uname() say doing php_uname('s n') or php_uname('a'). The reason I ask is because I’d like to use it to determine which server I’m on and therefore the configuration (paths, etc).

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Answer 1

I just did this:

<?php   $tstart = microtime(true);    php_uname('a');    print 'it took '. sprintf('%f',microtime(true) - $tstart) .' seconds\n'; ?> 

And it produced this:

it took 0.000016 seconds 

That is on a Core2Duo 2.4GHz Debian box.

I know it is an empirical test and all but I think that it shows that it will be fast enough for you.

I did not expect it to take a long time since uname only needs to make a very simple call to the kernel.