Bug 31485 - uname -p reports unknown
Summary: uname -p reports unknown
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: sh-utils
Version: 7.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-03-12 11:55 UTC by Oliver Paukstadt
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:32 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-03-12 11:56:05 UTC
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Description Oliver Paukstadt 2001-03-12 11:55:58 UTC 
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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.
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