On 23 July 2012 16:40, tvn <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> That's what I mean: my Debian OS is *NOT* 64 bit --  uname -a *DOES NOT*
> tell you about the OS but rather the capability of the machine hardware.


I don't know how uname is implemented in Linux, but according to
POSIX, the -m option gives the hardware. The -a option specifies
several options, including the -m. So it should give the hardware, and
not the software

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/uname.html


But I don't know if that's the case in practice. Linux is not Unix.


Dave

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