>Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 10:39:12 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Glenn Fowler <gsf at research.att.com>
>Subject: Re: [ksh93-integration-discuss] getconf
>
>not that I'm addressing this with the getconf builtin,
>I'm trying to get the big picture of why one system
>would have multiple /usr/*/bin/getconf
Glenn,
Because an implementation may support multiple standard environments
concurrently, it may need various versions of getconf to conform to
various standards' requirements. There are some open bugs on the way
the Solaris getconf utilities currently behave, but besides various
minimum and maximum values, the value returned by `getconf PATH` also
varies. Note that with appropriate values for the -v option's
option-argument, all versions of getconf should be able to return
appropriate values for any supported programming environment. Note
also that min and max values also vary for 32-bit and 64-bit
environments.
Don Cragun
>
>I had viewed getconf(1) as a name (string) interface to
>{ sysconf pathconf confstr } that provides limits and
>capabilities for user applications
>
>can the values that change between /usr/*/bin/getconf's
>be neatly classified/categorized for my big picture?
>would it be only the static minmax values that change?
