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authorsandra <sandra>1991-08-22 11:29:33 +0000
committersandra <sandra>1991-08-22 11:29:33 +0000
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parent536687d631b104fe379483055ae33254a138b633 (diff)
Minor tweaks.
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@@ -465,6 +465,11 @@ This is the actual implementation limit corresponding to
a constant within a given implementation.
@end defvr
+@strong{Incomplete:} There are some more constants from the POSIX.2
+standard that go here. But, what's specified in draft 11 doesn't
+agree with what is currently implemented.
+
+
Definitions for these additional macros that describe system parameters
appear in the header file @file{<unistd.h>}.
@@ -491,11 +496,15 @@ it back again. @xref{User/Group IDs of a Process}.
@comment unistd.h
@comment POSIX.1
@defvr Macro _POSIX_VERSION
-This constant represents the version of the POSIX standard to which
+This constant represents the version of the POSIX.1 standard to which
the implementation conforms. For an implementation conforming to the
1990 POSIX.1 standard, the value is the integer @code{199009L}.
@end defvr
+@strong{Incomplete:} There are some more constants from the POSIX.2
+standard that go here. But, what's specified in draft 11 doesn't
+agree with what is currently implemented.
+
You can request the actual runtime values of these parameters using the
@code{sysconf} function. This function and the macros for use as its
@var{parameter} argument are declared in the header file