lscfg from a subroutine

Tue Nov 27 12:10:06 AEST 1990

In article <1990Nov23.214323.12835 at odi.com>, benson at odi.com (Benson I.
Margulies) writes:
> Can anyone tell me how to get the sysplanar "processor identification"
> from inside a program, other than reading a pipe from lscfg? I need
> a machine serial number type item, and gethostid returns the IP address.
I believe you want to use the uname system call.  As a command, uname -m
reports that number.

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