(uname invocation): Mention that Linux outputs "unknown" for -i and -p.

diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog
index d47206514bc278c10ad6e581419fb09a3eab0e43..c4f4a529aea063907af4400a67a0be29818ab743 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
        and date".  Fix a minor bug in the documentation for --rfc-2822:
        it claimed day-of-month < 10 had leading space, not leading zero.
        Use a consistent format for terms like "RFC".
+       (uname invocation): Mention that Linux outputs "unknown" for
+       -i and -p.
 
 2005-09-08  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
 

diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 9a2e0a20dadad3c477b3abf0894ed770b397e11c..b502c1a9e57533899b3743ae5921824cb9724681 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -12225,6 +12225,8 @@ Print all of the below information.
 @cindex platform, hardware
 Print the hardware platform name
 (sometimes called the hardware implementation).
+Print @samp{unknown} if the kernel does not make this information visible,
+as is the case with Linux kernels.
 
 @item -m
 @itemx --machine
@@ -12252,6 +12254,8 @@ Print the network node hostname.
 @cindex host processor type
 Print the processor type (sometimes called the instruction set
 architecture or ISA).
+Print @samp{unknown} if the kernel does not make this information visible,
+as is the case with Linux kernels.
 
 @item -o
 @itemx --operating-system