From: Brett Williams <brett_williams@...>
Date: 2001-10-08T23:42:16+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:22241] Re: RUBY_PLATFORM problems/questions

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[snip]
> Use `uname -s` for running OS, `uname -r` for the version, and `uname -p`
> for the processor.  It's available on HP-UX.

uname -p does not work for our purposes.  It is an invalid option in HP-UX, 
and returns unknown in Linux (at least on my box).  uname -m returns the 
processor type in Linux, and the model number in HP-UX.

This is the reason we were exploring RUBY_PLATFORM, as there is no 
straightforward way to determine what processor we are running under for 
HPUX.