uname Question

Bob Chiodini rchiodin at bellsouth.net
Fri Apr 22 16:04:09 UTC 2005


Where does uname get the hardware platform (-i) information?  Why, on a
Pentium 4 running an SMP version of the kernel, would i386 be reported?
The -p and -m options both report i686.  Isn't this slightly
inconsistent?

On an AMD 64 system x86_64 is reported for all options (-i, -p and -m).

Bob...





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