[18909] in Athena Bugs
Re: Athena on the Pentium IV - (uname -m)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Apr 17 13:48:06 2001
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To: Tom Cavin <tec@ai.MIT.EDU>
cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 17 Apr 2001 13:44:05 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 13:48:01 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> The only hack I can think of to get around this problem is to
> replace the "uname" program with a script that fakes the output for
> a Pentium III. I don't like that idea, but I don't have a better
> one.
It wouldn't work anyway. The rpm library almost certainly uses the
uname() system call, not the uname program.
I'll think about what we can do.
