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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: setarch treats all x86 variants as i686?
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 06:26:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1445010.UmVgbvgH5k@vapier> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52F3F660.8060600@ubuntu.com>

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On Thursday, February 06, 2014 15:53:52 Phillip Susi wrote:
> setarch i486
> uname -m
> i686
> 
> Is this a bug?

no.  setarch is merely calling the kernel and the kernel is doing this.  see 
`man personality` for more details.
-mike

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-08 11:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-06 20:53 setarch treats all x86 variants as i686? Phillip Susi
2014-02-08 11:26 ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2014-02-08 15:48   ` Phillip Susi
2014-02-08 15:48   ` Phillip Susi

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