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Date:	Mon, 6 Jun 2005 12:03:29 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: reason for uname -p,-i returning "unkown"?
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On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 05:55:27PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Jun  6 08:15, Hans Horn wrote:
>> Is there a particular reason for uname -p and uname -i returning "unknown"?
>> Looks like as if the info that should be returned is in /proc/cpuinfo:
>> 
>> 'vendor_id' --> uname -i
>> 'model name' --> uname -p
>
>Cygwin doesn't provide the system interfaces called by uname for this
>purpose.
>
>Hmm, I just found that Cygwin prints "amd64" as machine while Linux
>prints x86_64.  Is it worth to change this?

I think so, yes.

cgf

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