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From: rml@hpfcla.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Cpu ID under UNIX
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Date: Wed, 13-Nov-85 16:16:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 13 16:16:00 1985
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> The VAX hardware supports the ability of obtaining the CPU id. Under
> VMS its obtained by the call to LIB$GETSYI. Has anyone done this
> under UNIX. 

At HP we have extended the utsname structure returned by uname(2) to
include a field (array of char) for the CPU id.  The field contains all
nulls for hardware without a machine-readable id.

		Bob Lenk
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