From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Feb 23 14:42:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA00446 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 14:42:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA00418 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 14:42:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA22793; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 15:41:42 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA03555; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 15:41:40 -0700 Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 15:41:40 -0700 Message-Id: <199802232241.PAA03555@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Steve Price Cc: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/5826: uname '-p' option In-Reply-To: <199802232230.OAA28159@hub.freebsd.org> References: <199802232230.OAA28159@hub.freebsd.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > The following reply was made to PR bin/5826; it has been noted by GNATS. > > From: Steve Price > To: alk@East.Sun.COM, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG > Cc: Subject: Re: bin/5826: uname '-p' option > Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 16:21:44 -0600 > > > I find many SVR4 scripts using the -p option of uname to get > > BSD uname -m functionality. Here's a one-line to provide > > script-compatibility. > > Actually I think the intent of the -p option is to show > the processor type of the machine, at least according to > a Digital box running OSF1. Maybe the attached patch > would be more appropriate? Hmm, all of the scripts I've used all return the same thing on the SUNS, irregardless of whether it's an IPC/SparcStattion/Ultra/Sparc 5, or what. This seems contradictory to the above statement, since all of the scripts expect to return 'i386' on all Solaris-PC platforms, irregardless of the CPU used. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message