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

[Juan J. Martínez]

On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 08:04 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
> [...]
> which suggests that it is talking about the hardware platform the
> software is running on.

Have you tried texinfo manual as recommended in the man page?

info coreutils 'uname invocation'

It's way more complete.

I looks like the problem may be in the information that it's being
provided by the kernel it's not accurate, or at least it's not what
uname is expecting :)

Regards,

Juan