You're welcome. And I meant to address the CentOS thing: my guess
(unverified) would be that in the absence of information from the
methods I described, they just copy the value of -m. As to whether or
not Ubuntu should do such a thing is another matter, and I'm not
prepared (nor authorized :) ) to
Michah,
Thank you very much for that informative reply -- that clarifies the
Ubuntu uname situation immensely. I do wonder why RHEL/CentOS (and
possibly other distros) behave differently, but this isn't an
appropriate discussion venue for that. I would question why Ubuntu
doesn't follow suit, bu
Thank you for your bug report.
This behavior is according to the documentation. Under the descriptions
for both "-i" and "-p", it states, "Print `unknown' if the kernel does
not make this information easily available, as is the case with Linux
kernels."
Most of the values for options given to the
See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-
coreutils/2007-04/msg00095.html
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uname -i and -p report "unknown"
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