"Asif Iqbal, Trumboo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> There seems to be a possible bug in uname command on most versions of
> the Linux system.
> uname -p prints 'unknown' instead of the host processor name.
As I understand it, that is a deficiency in the Linux API rather than
a bug in coreutils proper: Linux doesn't support the relevant sysinfo
(Solaris-style) or sysctl (BSD-style) system calls. Perhaps you can
report the problem to the Linux kernel folks.
In the meantime I installed the following documentation patch to
coreutils.
2005-09-13 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* doc/coreutils.texi (uname invocation): Mention that Linux outputs
"unknown" for -i and -p.
--- doc/coreutils.texi 13 Sep 2005 22:07:58 -0000 1.280
+++ doc/coreutils.texi 13 Sep 2005 23:01:59 -0000 1.282
@@ -12225,6 +12225,8 @@ Print all of the below information.
@cindex platform, hardware
Print the hardware platform name
(sometimes called the hardware implementation).
+Print @samp{unknown} if the kernel does not make this information
+easily available, as is the case with Linux kernels.
@item -m
@itemx --machine
@@ -12252,6 +12254,8 @@ Print the network node hostname.
@cindex host processor type
Print the processor type (sometimes called the instruction set
architecture or ISA).
+Print @samp{unknown} if the kernel does not make this information
+easily available, as is the case with Linux kernels.
@item -o
@itemx --operating-system
_______________________________________________
Bug-coreutils mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
