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-rw-r--r--doc/coreutils.texi4
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diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog
index d47206514..c4f4a529a 100644
--- a/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
and date". Fix a minor bug in the documentation for --rfc-2822:
it claimed day-of-month < 10 had leading space, not leading zero.
Use a consistent format for terms like "RFC".
+ (uname invocation): Mention that Linux outputs "unknown" for
+ -i and -p.
2005-09-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 9a2e0a20d..b502c1a9e 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -12225,6 +12225,8 @@ Print all of the below information.
@cindex platform, hardware
Print the hardware platform name
(sometimes called the hardware implementation).
+Print @samp{unknown} if the kernel does not make this information visible,
+as is the case with Linux kernels.
@item -m
@itemx --machine
@@ -12252,6 +12254,8 @@ Print the network node hostname.
@cindex host processor type
Print the processor type (sometimes called the instruction set
architecture or ISA).
+Print @samp{unknown} if the kernel does not make this information visible,
+as is the case with Linux kernels.
@item -o
@itemx --operating-system