[ubuntu-uk] uname -a for 32 bit os on 64 bit cpu

[Colin Law]

On 14 November 2011 21:55, John Levin <technolalia at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
> Thanks to everyone who replied. Does seem that uname reports the kernel, and
> not the hardware, which is what is suggested by the man page and
> http://ss64.com/bash/uname.html

This has caused confusion to others, there was a long thread which
involved such confusions on Ubuntu Users mailing list recently.
Perhaps it would be worth filing a bug to get the man page clarified.
I suppose you could even file a patch with better wording, but I don't
know go about that.

Colin