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author | Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> | 2017-05-31 03:44:31 +0000 |
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committer | Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> | 2017-05-31 03:44:31 +0000 |
commit | ab0dffafb704e258ce559a104fe0139df03d3f51 (patch) | |
tree | c6ee864d8920d48882b93559bacc5a2f899301f4 /usr.bin/uname | |
parent | 0dda2c25d4d550e5e0a89b003b9ff8a34a7cfd41 (diff) | |
download | src-ab0dffafb704e258ce559a104fe0139df03d3f51.tar.gz src-ab0dffafb704e258ce559a104fe0139df03d3f51.zip |
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diff --git a/usr.bin/uname/uname.1 b/usr.bin/uname/uname.1 index 97ce3070b7fe..2a5a03f5162f 100644 --- a/usr.bin/uname/uname.1 +++ b/usr.bin/uname/uname.1 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" @(#)uname.1 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/8/94 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd November 20, 2013 +.Dd May 31, 2017 .Dt UNAME 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -61,6 +61,11 @@ Write the version of the kernel. .It Fl m Write the type of the current hardware platform to standard output. +.Po Xr make 1 +uses it to set the +.Va MACHINE +variable. +.Pc .It Fl n Write the name of the system to standard output. .It Fl o @@ -69,6 +74,11 @@ This is a synonym for the option, for compatibility with other systems. .It Fl p Write the type of the machine processor architecture to standard output. +.Po Xr make 1 +uses it to set the +.Va MACHINE_ARCH +variable. +.Pc .It Fl r Write the current release level of the operating system to standard output. @@ -106,6 +116,19 @@ will allow the corresponding data to be set to the contents of the environment variable. .Sh EXIT STATUS .Ex -std +.Sh EXAMPLES +The hardware platform +.Pq Fl m +can be different from the machine's processor architecture +.Pq Fl p , +e.g., on 64-bit PowerPC, +.Fl m +would return +.Va powerpc +and +.Fl p +would return +.Va powerpc64 . .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr feature_present 3 , .Xr getosreldate 3 , |