2009/4/3 Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Sharpe, Sam J wrote: > >> [sam@machine ~]$ [[ $(grep lm /proc/cpuinfo) ]] && echo x86_64 || echo i686 >> x86_64 (this represents the processor architecture) > > and your opinion of > > $ getconf LONG_BIT > > i'm guessing that is equally informative, yes? Apparently not, but I didn't know this until I did a bit of reading/experimenting. Take my example machine before which has a 64bit capable CPU but a 32bit OS: [sam@machine ~]$ getconf LONG_BIT 32 As you can see, it printing the kernel architecture, not a property of the CPU. I think /proc/cpuinfo is always the right place to look, because getconf reports only on kernel properties. -- Sam -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
