[2557] in Athena Bugs
Re: machtype -d is not consistent in its case...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ezra Peisach)
Thu Jul 13 09:32:32 1989
To: John D. Kubiatowicz <kubitron@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, epeisach@ATHENA.MIT.EDU,
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 12 Jul 89 22:46:43 -0400.
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 89 09:32:07 EDT
From: Ezra Peisach <epeisach@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
machtype -d is different on the vax/rt.
On the rt, machtype reads the strings from the kernel and displays them.
(Thereby giving two entries for the price of one). On the VAX, the string
is printed. I would not want to make any changes as we have no idea what
programs out there might break.
Ezra
