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uname -p?



On every Linux box I've ever used, uname -p prints 'unknown'.  This has
never affected me in the slightest, but every once in a while it occurs
to me that I still have no idea what it means.  I assume I could somehow
make it print something i686 or something, although this is what's
printed by uname -m.  The docs indicate that the info gets read from the
running kernel, so maybe it's something I have to configure when
compiling the kernel.

On my Solaris machine, uname -m prints sun4u, while -p prints sparc.  So
maybe uname -p could print 'ia32' or something like that...  I dunno.
I'm curious.

noah

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