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Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 17:55:27 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: reason for uname -p,-i returning "unkown"?
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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?


Corinna

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