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Renumber cluase 4 to 3, per what everybody else did when BSD granted them permission to remove clause 3. My insistance on keeping the same numbering for legal reasons is too pedantic, so give up on that point. Submitted by: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@stevens.edu> Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/pull/96
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.\" @(#)confstr.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd December 3, 2006
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.Dt CONFSTR 3
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm confstr
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.Nd get string-valued configurable variables
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.Sh LIBRARY
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.Lb libc
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In unistd.h
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.Ft size_t
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.Fn confstr "int name" "char *buf" "size_t len"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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This interface is specified by
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.St -p1003.1-2001 .
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A more flexible (but non-portable) interface is provided by
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.Xr sysctl 3 .
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.Pp
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The
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.Fn confstr
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function provides a method for applications to get configuration
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defined string values.
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Shell programmers needing access to these parameters should use the
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.Xr getconf 1
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utility.
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.Pp
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The
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.Fa name
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argument specifies the system variable to be queried.
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Symbolic constants for each name value are found in the include file
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.In unistd.h .
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The
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.Fa len
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argument specifies the size of the buffer referenced by the
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argument
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.Fa buf .
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If
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.Fa len
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is non-zero,
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.Fa buf
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is a non-null pointer, and
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.Fa name
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has a value, up to
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.Fa len
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\- 1 bytes of the value are copied into the buffer
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.Fa buf .
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The copied value is always null terminated.
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.Pp
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The available values are as follows:
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.Bl -tag -width 6n
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.It Li _CS_PATH
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Return a value for the
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.Ev PATH
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environment variable that finds all the standard utilities.
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.El
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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If the call to
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.Fn confstr
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is not successful, 0 is returned and
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.Va errno
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is set appropriately.
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Otherwise, if the variable does not have a configuration defined value,
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0 is returned and
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.Va errno
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is not modified.
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Otherwise, the buffer size needed to hold the entire configuration-defined
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value is returned.
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If this size is greater than the argument
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.Fa len ,
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the string in
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.Fa buf
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was truncated.
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.Sh ERRORS
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The
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.Fn confstr
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function may fail and set
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.Va errno
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for any of the errors specified for the library functions
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.Xr malloc 3
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and
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.Xr sysctl 3 .
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.Pp
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In addition, the following errors may be reported:
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.Bl -tag -width Er
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.It Bq Er EINVAL
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The value of the
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.Fa name
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argument is invalid.
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr getconf 1 ,
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.Xr pathconf 2 ,
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.Xr sysconf 3 ,
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.Xr sysctl 3
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Fn confstr
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function first appeared in
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.Bx 4.4 .
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