On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 08:57 +0000, Colin Law wrote: > 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?
It's interesting that POSIX only seem to cover -m, but not -i or -p: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/uname.html For -m says "on which the system is running", which doesn't seem to be coherent with the uname output we are getting in a 64 bit system running a 32 bit kernel. Regards, Juan -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
