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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2003-07-15 06:39:49 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2003-07-15 06:39:49 +0000 |
| commit | b5dfcc1d0dd061dd70b1866f3e15e39396cc1a7d (patch) | |
| tree | 17df465ff9049372a9171fa0fb3480099991a408 /doc | |
| parent | 54a31f6d9aa45fa10191edf8c43e6f3e311674fe (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-b5dfcc1d0dd061dd70b1866f3e15e39396cc1a7d.tar.xz | |
(uname invocation): Explain the POSIX terminology behind uname -m and uname -s.
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 96c557068..2616c2696 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -10972,7 +10972,8 @@ Print the hardware platform name @cindex machine type @cindex hardware class @cindex hardware type -Print the machine hardware name (sometimes called the hardware class). +Print the machine hardware name (sometimes called the hardware class +or hardware type). @item -n @itemx --nodename @@ -11013,6 +11014,14 @@ Print the kernel release. @cindex kernel name @cindex name of kernel Print the kernel name. +@acronym{POSIX} 1003.1-2001 (@pxref{Standards conformance}) calls this +``the implementation of the operating system'', because the +@acronym{POSIX} specification itself has no notion of ``kernel''. +The kernel name might be the same as the operating system name printed +by the @option{-o} or @option{--operating-system} option, but it might +differ. Some operating systems (e.g., FreeBSD, HP-UX) have the same +name as their underlying kernels; others (e.g., GNU/Linux, Solaris) +do not. @item -v @itemx --kernel-version |