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Date:      Thu, 2 Feb 2012 11:30:51 -0700
From:      Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: uname ?
Message-ID:  <20120202183051.GA25323@hemlock.hydra>
In-Reply-To: <NBECLJEKGLBKHHFFANMBKEICCPAA.joeb1@a1poweruser.com>
References:  <NBECLJEKGLBKHHFFANMBKEICCPAA.joeb1@a1poweruser.com>

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On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 03:09:00PM +0800, joeb1 wrote:
> It looks to me that the  uname -m  and  uname -p  always have the same
> value, such as "i386".
> 
> Is there some fine-grained difference or some un-documented difference
> between them
> or some combination were the values would be different?

I don't have one handy, so I don't have any way to test this right now,
but I wonder if an AMD machine might give a different answer to one of
those than an Intel machine, given a 32-bit 386 instruction set processor
for both.

-- 
Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]



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