Re: "uname -a" question

[Carey Evans <c.evans@clear.net.nz>]

haphazard@socketis.net (Greg Norris) writes:

> When I run "uname -a",I get a line like the following:
> 
>      Linux glitch 2.0.33 #1 Thu Mar 5 17:47:54 CST 1998 i686 unknown
> 
> I was just curious what the "unknown" portion refers to.  The man/info
> page seems to indicate that the "-a" option is equivilent to "-snrvm",
> but when invoked in that fashion I don't get the "unknown" part.

I would say the info page is out of date.  The "unknown" is coming
from "-p", which must make sense on some non-Intel systems (probably
Sparcs, anyway).  I don't have any to test it on, though.

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