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Re: Not exporting MACHINE and MACHINE_ARCH from <machine/param.h>

To: Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>
Subject: Re: Not exporting MACHINE and MACHINE_ARCH from <machine/param.h>
From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 11:06:48 +0200

On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 10:47:13AM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
> struct utsname, as returned by uname(3), includes "machine" but 
> not "machine_arch".  Perhaps it's time to extend uname(3) to be 
> able to return everything that uname(1) can print.

I like this suggestion, independently of the issue at hand.

Martin

References:
- Not exporting MACHINE and MACHINE_ARCH from <machine/param.h>
  - From: Matt Thomas
- Re: Not exporting MACHINE and MACHINE_ARCH from <machine/param.h>
  - From: Alan Barrett

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