How can I determine the OS of the system from within a Lua script?

Question

Ok I need to determine the system\'s OS from a Lua script, but Lua as such has no API for this, so I use os.getenv() and query enviromental variables. On Windows checking the en

Answer 1

I guess that if you just need Windows/Unix detection, you could check the filesystem for the existence of /etc or /bin or /boot directories. Aditionally, if you need to know which distro is it, most Linux distros have a little file in /etc showing the distro and version, sadly they all name it differently.