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

[Colin Law]

On 15 November 2011 09:41, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 08:57:44AM +0000, Colin Law wrote:
>> So you think the problem is not in the man page for uname, but uname
>> -i -m -p *should* display information about the hardware rather than
>> the installed OS?
>
> This won't change - uname is used in scripts that need to know
> specifically about the running kernel.

So a solution would be to improve the documentation to remove the ambiguity.

Colin