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| author | Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowi@redhat.com> | 2011-10-12 01:53:57 +0400 |
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| committer | Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowi@redhat.com> | 2011-10-12 01:53:57 +0400 |
| commit | 14b9008cca69dc6aaa2dec9954d8687437a25fbb (patch) | |
| tree | c12d444bf19b6bd75af67ff8a61be46e3956a24e /winsup/utils | |
| parent | 1e5bcae135c44a5468138db0a53419a0d7d69d10 (diff) | |
* utils.sgml (getconf): Expand documentation.
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| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/utils/ChangeLog | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/utils/utils.sgml | 24 |
2 files changed, 24 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/utils/ChangeLog b/winsup/utils/ChangeLog index ff7017866..9341396df 100644 --- a/winsup/utils/ChangeLog +++ b/winsup/utils/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2011-10-11 Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net> + + * utils.sgml (getconf): Expand documentation. + 2011-10-10 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> * ldd.cc (VERSION): Remove. diff --git a/winsup/utils/utils.sgml b/winsup/utils/utils.sgml index 0411cb93a..a5752e841 100644 --- a/winsup/utils/utils.sgml +++ b/winsup/utils/utils.sgml @@ -484,15 +484,31 @@ Other options: <para>The <command>getconf</command> utility prints the value of the configuration variable specified by <literal>variable_name</literal>. -If <literal>pathname</literal> is given, <command>getconf</command> prints -the value of the configuration variable for the specified pathname.</para> +If no <literal>pathname</literal> is given, <command>getconf</command> +serves as a wrapper for the <literal>confstr</literal> and +<literal>sysconf</literal> functions, supporting the symbolic constants +defined in the <literal>limits.h</literal> and <literal>unistd.h</literal> +headers, without their respective <literal>_CS_</literal> or +<literal>_SC_</literal> prefixes. +</para> + +<para>If <literal>pathname</literal> is given, <command>getconf</command> +prints the value of the configuration variable for the specified pathname. +In this form, <command>getconf</command> serves as a wrapper for the +<literal>pathconf</literal> function, supporting the symbolic constants defined +in the <literal>unistd.h</literal> header, without the <literal>_PC_</literal> +prefix. </para> <para>If you specify the <literal>-v</literal> option, the parameter denotes a specification for which the value of the configuration variable -should be printed.</para> +should be printed. Note that the only specifications supported by Cygwin +are <literal>POSIX_V7_ILP32_OFFBIG</literal> and the legacy +<literal>POSIX_V6_ILP32_OFFBIG</literal> and +<literal>XBS5_ILP32_OFFBIG</literal> equivalents.</para> <para>Use the <literal>-a</literal> option to print a list of all available -configuration variables.</para> +configuration variables for the system, or given <literal>pathname</literal>, +and their values.</para> </sect2> |