2011/11/15 Juan J. <reid...@usebox.net>: > On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 08:04 +0000, Colin Law wrote: >> [...] >> which suggests that it is talking about the hardware platform the >> software is running on. > > Have you tried texinfo manual as recommended in the man page? > > info coreutils 'uname invocation' > > It's way more complete. > > I looks like the problem may be in the information that it's being > provided by the kernel it's not accurate, or at least it's not what > uname is expecting :)
So you think the problem is not in the man page for uname, but uname -i -m -p *should* display information about the hardware rather than the installed OS? I have had a quick look for any relevant bug reports but cannot find any. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/