Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 16:32:19 -0500 From: Max Euston <meuston@jmrodgers.com> To: "'FreeBSD Bugs'" <freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: FW: bin/5826: uname '-p' option Message-ID: <01BD4141.C79A4DA0.meuston@jmrodgers.com>
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From: Max Euston [SMTP:meuston@jmrodgers.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 1998 9:21 AM
To: 'Nate Williams'
Subject: RE: bin/5826: uname '-p' option
On Monday, February 23, 1998 5:42 PM, Nate Williams [SMTP:nate@mt.sri.com] wrote:
> > The following reply was made to PR bin/5826; it has been noted by GNATS.
> >
> > From: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
> > To: alk@East.Sun.COM, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
> > Cc: Subject: Re: bin/5826: uname '-p' option
> > Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 16:21:44 -0600
> >
> > > I find many SVR4 scripts using the -p option of uname to get
> > > BSD uname -m functionality. Here's a one-line to provide
> > > script-compatibility.
> >
> > Actually I think the intent of the -p option is to show
> > the processor type of the machine, at least according to
> > a Digital box running OSF1. Maybe the attached patch
> > would be more appropriate?
>
> Hmm, all of the scripts I've used all return the same thing on the SUNS,
> irregardless of whether it's an IPC/SparcStattion/Ultra/Sparc 5, or
> what. This seems contradictory to the above statement, since all of the
> scripts expect to return 'i386' on all Solaris-PC platforms,
> irregardless of the CPU used.
>
>
> Nate
>
On my (old) AT&T Starserver E (SMP EISA 486 PC) (Unix SVR4 3.1):
$ man uname
[...]
-a Print all information.
-m Print the machine hardware name.
-n Print the nodename (the nodename is the name by which the
system is known to a communications network). This is the
default.
-p Print the current host's processor type.
-r Print the operating system release.
-s Print the name of the operating system (e.g. UNIX System V).
-v Print the operating system version.
[...]
$ uname -p
386/AT
$ uname -m
i386
Just another environment FWIW.
Max
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