Where is 'getconf' utility?
I can not found 'getconf' utility in Cygwin. http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=getconf I search that same reported in 2003 and found some article where people have portability issue because utility is missing, like: http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2008/03/05/hacking-threading-building-blocks-into-cygwin-part-2/ 'getconf' utility present in POSIX 2003/2008. I don't know if utility mention in POSIX it must be implemented in POSIX compliance env. Also as state cygwin-ug-net-nochunks.html: Early on in the development process, we made the important design decision that it would not be necessary to strictly adhere to existing UNIX standards like POSIX.1 if it was not possible or if it would significantly diminish the usability of the tools on the Win32 platform. As I understand if it will be exist it must included in 'cygwin' package because this package provide: /usr/include/limits.h ... /usr/lib/libc.a ... etc. and I see 'libc6' for Debian also contain /usr/bin/getconf. In web I found many realisation of this utility (ever with BSD licence from NetBSD). They so simple that I think that no any portability issue occurred. Does it must be included in Cygwin and make it more POSIX compliance? -- Best regards! -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Where is 'getconf' utility?
On 12/24/2010 03:55 PM, Oleksandr Gavenko wrote: > I can not found 'getconf' utility in Cygwin. That's correct. Would you like to help by volunteering to port it? > > I don't know if utility mention in POSIX it must be implemented > in POSIX compliance env. Yes, POSIX requires getconf(1) to exist. Cygwin isn't (quite) POSIX compliant, yet. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
