Bug 31485

Summary:	uname -p reports unknown
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Oliver Paukstadt <pstadt>
Component:	sh-utils	Assignee:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.0	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Hardware:	i386
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Description Oliver Paukstadt 2001-03-12 11:55:58 UTC

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.1-ac8 i686)


refering to the man-Page:
-m, --machine  print the machine (hardware) type
-p, --processor print the host processor type
m prints the i686, p prints unknown.




Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. login in
2. uname -p
3. ;-)

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-03-12 11:58:50 UTC

This is intentional. It's the same thing as the second part of the autoconf 
host type (usually i686-unknown-linux).
The -p distinction is used only on some very odd architectures.