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and subject line uname: -i and -p options give unhelpful answers
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regarding uname: -i and -p options give unhelpful answers
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Package: coreutils
Version: 5.0-1
Severity: normal
According to the manual, uname has the following options:
`-i'
`--hardware-platform'
Print the hardware platform name (sometimes called the hardware
implementation).
`-p'
`--processor'
Print the processor type (sometimes called the instruction set
architecture or ISA).
On my system, though, both of them return "unknown". This is less than
useful. I'm not sure what "uname -i" should do on a PC, but "uname -p"
should return something like "i386", which I suspect could be set at compile
time if there turns out to be no way to get it out of the kernel.
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux wraith 2.4.20 #2 Wed Jan 22 16:53:10 GMT 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
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This bug seems not to want to die, but what I said in the last message
stands: code that wants this is doing something wrong. I suggest looking
at the flags: section of /proc/cpuinfo if writing a shell script, or
various runtime processor feature tests as appropriate. Nobody has
proposed a use case for this in the past several years, so I hope the
bug can stay closed this time.
Mike Stone
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