| Date | Tue, 15 Apr 1997 14:50:54 -0500 | From | Miguel de Icaza <> | Subject | Re: procfs problems |
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> > port : {i386,alpha,sparc,ppc,mips} > > > > And then, if people want to parse any of the extra information, they > > should know the architecture specific information on the CPU before > > attempting to parse it. > > > > Isn't that what uname -m is supposed to do?
Well, yes, and most of /proc/version is also returned by uname -a :-).
> 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.
Right. This is the idea behind /proc/cpuinfo in the port field.
Miguel.
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