Re: uname reports 'unknown'

Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Tue, 12 Mar 2002 14:14:39 +1100


On 11 Mar 2002 20:43:37 -0500,
Shawn Starr <spstarr@sh0n.net> wrote:
>Linux coredump 2.4.19-pre2-ac4-xfs-shawn10 #2 Mon Mar 11 03:36:35 EST
>2002 i586 unknown
>
>
>what should 'unknown' really be? I've never seen it different on Intel
>systems.

'unknown' is the output from uname -p, host processor type. That field
is not supported in the Linux kernel. uname.c in sh-utils has this

#if defined (HAVE_SYSINFO) && defined (SI_ARCHITECTURE)
if (sysinfo (SI_ARCHITECTURE, processor, sizeof (processor)) == -1)
error (1, errno, _("cannot get processor type"));
#else
strcpy (processor, "unknown");
#endif

HAVE_SYSINFO is always false in sh-utils and SI_ARCHITECTURE is not
defined in glibc so you always get unknown.

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