thanks Don, that cleared it up
On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 13:22:44 -0700 (PDT) Don Cragun wrote:
> 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.
