Dňa 25.05.2013 12:34 Claudius Hubig wrote / napísal(a): > Dear Vladimir, > > Vladimir Budnev wrote: >> While trying some opensource utility I'v found that one of launching >> scripts uses uname -i | grep x86_64 to check for 64/32 bit platform and >> futher processing. > > -i is for the ‘hardware platform’. You likely rather want to use > ‘-m’, which gives the ‘machine hardware name’. While the naming > appears a little strange, the former is probably intended to give the > actual hardware architecture, whereas the latter gives the kernel > architecture. > > An i386 kernel running on an amd64 CPU would hence give out ‘i386’ (or > something like that) when queried via -m, whereas ‘-i’, if available, > would have to say ‘x86_64’ – which doesn’t help at all, since the > kernel couldn’t run such code.
Small example from my machine – Debian testing: slavko@bonifac:~$ uname -i unknown but: slavko@bonifac:~$ uname -m x86_64 regards -- Slavko http://slavino.sk
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