uname ?

[Chad Perrin]

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.

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