Hi everyone.
Little question about 'uname'. Does it read data from kernel, /proc or
get its data from other source ?
uname info page:
$ uname -a
Linux hayley 1.0.4 #3 Thu May 12 18:06:34 1994 i486
my system:
uname -a
Linux werewolf 2.2.18-pre23-vm #3 SMP Wed Nov 22 22:33:53 CET 2000 i686 unknown
uname -m (machine)
i686
uname -p (processor)
unknown
Seems like swapping machine-processor.
Perhaps it can be changed to uname -m give the info in get_cpu_vendor(),
and uname -p give the ix86.
Or if some utility relays on uname -m being ix86, make uname -p give cpu_vendor+
cpu_model.
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Linux 2.2.18-pre23-vm #3 SMP Wed Nov 22 22:33:53 CET 2000 i686 unknown
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, J . A . Magallon wrote:
> Little question about 'uname'. Does it read data from kernel, /proc or
> get its data from other source ?
uname(1) utility calls uname(2) syscall.
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Alex
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> Little question about 'uname'. Does it read data from kernel, /proc or
> get its data from other source ?
'strace' was made to answer questions like this.
DS