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BUG: Uname -m and arch
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- Subject: BUG: Uname -m and arch
- From: "Fish" <fish at infidels dot org>
- Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 19:46:37 -0700
Hello.
I happen to trip over a bug with uname.
On my system, "uname -m" returns "i686". This is incorrect. I only have a 200MHz
Pentium MMX, and a "i686" is equivalent to a Pentium Pro class CPU. It should be
returning "i586".
I took a peek at source module uname.cc and the code there is incorrect. It is
not taking the Win9X/ME vs. NT/2K/XP issue into account.
The following post dated from 1997 explains the problem:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/1997-05/msg00655.html
The following post from the same 1997 thread contains the CORRECT code:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/1997-05/msg00696.html
Thanks.
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"Fish" (David B. Trout)
fish@infidels.org
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