Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 12:03:29 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: reason for uname -p,-i returning "unkown"? Message-ID: <20050606160329.GC3833@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20050606155527.GK3268@calimero.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050606155527.GK3268@calimero.vinschen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/