Re: can one rely on uname -i results?

[Vladimir Budnev <vladimir.budnev@gmail.com>]

Wow! Thanks everyone for answers. Its clear for me now.

2013/5/25 Vladimir Budnev <vladimir.budnev@gmail.com>

Goodday everyone!

While trying some opensource utility I'v found that one of launching scripts uses uname -i | grep x86_64 to check for 64/32 bit platform and futher processing.

But on my desktop it gives "unknown", so script does not work as expected.

And at the same time:

steve@dbsteve: /home/coin %

% uname -a

Linux dbsteve 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.41-2 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Does it mean one cant rely on uname -i results or my distro (debian testing) behaves strange?

PS

% cat /etc/debian_version 

7.0