Re: procfs problems

Thomas Sailer (sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch)
Wed, 16 Apr 1997 11:29:12 +0200

> Isn't that what uname -m is supposed to do?
>
> Pet peeve: uname -m should return i386 on all systems. If we want to
> make the processor generation visible via uname, I think we should
> make uname -p work.

Not the other way round?

Under Solaris 2.5.1, uname returns:
eldrich:~% uname -p
sparc
eldrich:~% uname -m
sun4u

quincy:~% uname -p
sparc
quincy:~% uname -m
sun4m

Tom

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