site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com What does UNIX have to do with Mac OS X (No, really?) uname -m (or uname(3)) will return either "x86_64" or "i386" depending on OS version, kernel type, etc., and may even return "Power Macintosh" if run on an Intel system but under Rosetta. What are you really trying to do? Shantonu Sen ssen@apple.com On Aug 5, 2010, at 2:39 PM, François Revol wrote:

Le 5 août 2010 à 23:28, Duane Murphy a écrit :

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We have a script that needs to detect if the OS is running on Intel hardware.

What is the safe way of doing this?

The proper way on UNIX is usually: uname -m

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