On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 02:27:04PM +0100, Matthew Burgess wrote: > > Upstream have addressed the problems with `uname -a', `uname -i' and > `uname -p' outputting 'unknown' for the processor type and hardware > platform under Linux. I'd therefore like to take their patch and use it > in LFS, so we're consistent with upstream. Note the following behaviours:
While it may very well be something that sysctl should handle, nevertheless, a mechanism is provided for the coreutils developers to get this info. They just choose not to. I see no reason why we should follow their lead when we already have a working implementation. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
