Github user kinow commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/commons-lang/pull/231 @michael-o >What is the real pupose for this actually? The client should not care about the arch at all. I think @Tomschi use case is valid, where a client could need to know the arch before loading a certain library, and we had another issue submitted LANG-1145 with similar requirement. >The regex match is brittle. This will likely fail on ARM and it fails here on Itanium with HP-UX for os.arch IA64N which is a 32 bit VM. Note taken, perhaps before merging we can try to cover more archs, like this list: * http://lopica.sourceforge.net/os.html There is another place where arch is used within Commons too: * https://github.com/apache/commons-crypto/blob/158be0644c353a617427ab190a4f09082cda42ac/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/crypto/OsInfo.java#L28 We can possibly look at how crypto is using it, and if we could maybe use a similar approach here.
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