On 01/ 2/11 12:20 PM, Gaetan Nadon wrote:
> On Solaris, uname -m would return x86_64 but never amd64, right?
On Solaris, uname -m returns i386, since it's compatible with i386 ISA
applications, even when running the 64-bit kernel. (Not changing uname
output between 32-bit & 64-bit kernels was a design decision made when
Solaris first added 64-bit support for SPARC in the late 90's, to increase
binary compatibility with existing programs & shell scripts.)
Other utilities, like isainfo, return amd64 for the 64-bit API.
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