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.\"
.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 17:51:42 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
.\" Modified Tue Aug 17 11:42:20 1999 by Ariel Scolnicov (ariels@compugen.co.il)
-.TH sysconf 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01"
+.TH sysconf 3 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7"
.SH NAME
sysconf \- get configuration information at run time
.SH LIBRARY
@@ -14,20 +14,20 @@ Standard C library
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <unistd.h>
-.PP
+.P
.BI "long sysconf(int " "name" );
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
POSIX allows an application to test at compile or run time
whether certain options are supported, or what the value is
of certain configurable constants or limits.
-.PP
+.P
At compile time this is done by including
.I <unistd.h>
and/or
.I <limits.h>
and testing the value of certain macros.
-.PP
+.P
At run time, one can ask for numerical values using the present function
.BR sysconf ().
One can ask for numerical values that may depend
@@ -37,12 +37,12 @@ and
.BR pathconf (3).
One can ask for string values using
.BR confstr (3).
-.PP
+.P
The values obtained from these functions are system configuration constants.
They do not change during the lifetime of a process.
.\" except that sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) may change answer after a call
.\" to setrlimit( ) which changes the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
-.PP
+.P
For options, typically, there is a constant
.B _POSIX_FOO
that may be defined in
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ argument will be
.BR _SC_FOO .
For a list of options, see
.BR posixoptions (7).
-.PP
+.P
For variables or limits, typically, there is a constant
.BR _FOO ,
maybe defined in
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ We give the name of the variable, the name of the
.BR sysconf ()
argument used to inquire about its value,
and a short description.
-.PP
+.P
First, the POSIX.1 compatible values.
.\" [for the moment: only the things that are unconditionally present]
.\" .TP
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ is supported.
.BR POSIX2_SW_DEV " - " _SC_2_SW_DEV
indicates whether the POSIX.2 software development utilities option is
supported.
-.PP
+.P
These values also exist, but may not be standard.
.TP
.BR "" " - " _SC_PHYS_PAGES
@@ -366,7 +366,6 @@ T{
.BR sysconf ()
T} Thread safety MT-Safe env
.TE
-.sp 1
.SH STANDARDS
POSIX.1-2008.
.SH HISTORY
@@ -377,7 +376,7 @@ It is difficult to use
because it is not specified how much of the argument space for
.BR exec (3)
is consumed by the user's environment variables.
-.PP
+.P
Some returned values may be huge; they are not suitable for allocating
memory.
.SH SEE ALSO