[BusyBox 0006224]: uname -a doesn't detect my operating system (mismatch with coreutils)

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Thu Nov 13 22:45:18 UTC 2008


A NOTE has been added to this issue. 
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http://busybox.net/bugs/view.php?id=6224 
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Reported By:                pgbovine
Assigned To:                BusyBox
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Project:                    BusyBox
Issue ID:                   6224
Category:                   Standards Compliance
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   major
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
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Date Submitted:             11-11-2008 13:06 PST
Last Modified:              11-13-2008 14:45 PST
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Summary:                    uname -a doesn't detect my operating system
(mismatch with coreutils)
Description: 
Coreutils behavior:

$ uname -a
Linux hexapod 2.6.25.9-76.fc9.i686 http://busybox.net/bugs/view.php?id=1 SMP Fri
Jun 27 16:14:35 EDT 2008
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux


Busybox behavior:

$ ./busybox uname -a
Linux hexapod 2.6.25.9-76.fc9.i686 http://busybox.net/bugs/view.php?id=1 SMP Fri
Jun 27 16:14:35 EDT 2008
i686 unknown


Coreutils properly detects my OS as "i686 i386 GNU/Linux", but busybox
says "unknown" instead.

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 Tito - 11-11-08 15:40  
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man uname says:

      -p, --processor
              print the processor type or "unknown"

so unknown seems to be a legal value. 

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 pgbovine - 11-13-08 14:45  
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sure, it's legal, but is it a problem that it doesn't recognize GNU/Linux
when coreutils does?  feel free to close this issue if you don't think
it's actually a problem at all.  thanks. 

Issue History 
Date Modified   Username       Field                    Change               
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11-11-08 13:06  pgbovine       New Issue                                    
11-11-08 13:06  pgbovine       Status                   new => assigned     
11-11-08 13:06  pgbovine       Assigned To               => BusyBox         
11-11-08 15:40  Tito           Note Added: 0015524                          
11-13-08 14:45  pgbovine       Note Added: 0015804                          
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