Read linux kernel version using C?

Question

I am using Ubuntu and I want to read the version of its kernel. I found a file named version in /proc/ that records the version of the current kernel.

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Answer 1

Look at this article for the shell based way of getting kernel information. You can suitably run all of this using the system() call. But I am assuming that wouldn't be enough in your case. You'd need someway to parse the shell output. Hence make use of popen() call.