Re: Possible bug in uname command

[Eric Blake]

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> As I understand it, that is a deficiency in the Linux API rather than
> a bug in coreutils proper: Linux doesn't support the relevant sysinfo
> (Solaris-style) or sysctl (BSD-style) system calls.  Perhaps you can
> report the problem to the Linux kernel folks.

What about parsing /proc/cpuinfo, on machines that have that?  (Cygwin
falls into the same camp as linux, where this information is in
/proc/cpuinfo, but not available from any easy system call.)

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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