On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Sharpe, Sam J wrote:
> 2009/4/3 Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >
> > what is the fedora-approved way to identify the wordsize of both
> > your running kernel and your CPU? for the kernel, i'm used to running
> >
> > $ uname -r
> >
> > and just looking at the suffix, which in my case would be either
> > "i686" or "x86_64". is there a simpler way?
>
> # man arch
> NAME
> arch - print machine hardware name (same as uname -m)
>
> # arch
> x86_64
>
> # uname -m
> x86_64
hang on ... if i have a 32-bit kernel running on a 64-bit CPU, what
will the above print? i'd want it to print, well, i686 or something
that represents 32 bits. is that what it would do?
rday
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