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According to Ashwani Bhat on 12/20/2006 10:34 PM: > Hi, > > I am using coreutils-v5.2.1on Linux x86 and x86_64. When I use "uname > -p", it does not show any processor type. Instead it gives me "unknown" > as the output. I tried the same with the sh-utils-v2.0 and the behavior > remained the same. > > However coreutils-v4.5.3 is working fine. Can you please help ? All of the versions you mentioned are out of date. You may want to consider upgrading to coreutils 6.7. The fact that your copy of 4.5.3 printed something for -p is due to a vendor patch, and not something in upstream coreutils. The problem is that Linux does not provide a consistent API for getting at the processor type, so coreutils cannot guess it. Some distros add patches that make -p print something other than unknown, but they are not very portable, and not worth the maintenance hassle upstream. If you really want this fixed, you should convince Linux to add an API that makes it easy and reliable to get at this information. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFioRo84KuGfSFAYARAmTDAKCWeokrwfApb9P+3UPhTuxGqBCfUgCfWYi3 THnxr6E+Yg2ZdbfeZIi+l44= =CqoX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
