determining erts version

[Chandrashekhar Mullaparthi]

The closest seems to be this.

12> erlang:system_info(system_version).
"Erlang (BEAM) emulator version 5.2 [source]\n"

hth
Chandru

On 20 Oct 2004, at 14:11, Gerd Flaig wrote:

> Hi,
>
> is there a defined interface to obtain the ERTS version of a node?
> Something in the spirit of
>
>     1> erlang:erts_version().
>     "5.4"
>
> The only ways I can think of in the moment involve dissecting file
> names. Before R10, there was OTP_ROOT/releases/start_erl.data which
> contained the version number. OTP_ROOT can be obtained from
> code:root_dir().
>
> In the current Debian package of R10B (10.b.0-2), the runtime is
> selected via a symlink from /usr/bin/erl:
>
> % ls -l /usr/bin/erl
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 30 2004-10-12 13:11 /usr/bin/erl -> 
> ../lib/erlang/erts-5.4/bin/erl*
>
> I can take apart that link, but I can't be sure that the node was
> actually started as /usr/bin/erl. Is there a better way? If not, an
> erts-version-reporting BIF would be really nice.
>
>      Goodbyte, Gerd.
> -- 
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