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    SubjectRe: uname: Linux ... "unknown"
    On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 02:36:32PM -0800, B. James Phillippe wrote:
    > On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Mark Lord wrote:
    >
    > > "B. James Phillippe" wrote:
    > > >
    > > > Hello,
    > > >
    > > > Does anyone know why uname always returns "unknown" for the (yp)domainname?
    > ...
    > > Are you sure that is the domainname there?
    > >
    > > % uname -p
    > > unknown
    > >
    > > The "-p" is the "host processor type".
    >
    > Mark (and others who have responded) are correct; the "unknown" flag is
    > probably the processor type. But that only changes the question: is it
    > part of the kernel that is lacking the information or is it a bug in uname?
    >

    btw, domainname on my machine returns nothing. where does uname(2) get the
    domain name from?

    -- arvind

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