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29.Dd January 8, 2008
30.Dt FEATURE_PRESENT 3
31.Os
32.Sh NAME
33.Nm feature_present
34.Nd query presence of a kernel feature
35.Sh LIBRARY
36.Lb libc
37.Sh SYNOPSIS
38.In unistd.h
39.Ft int
40.Fn feature_present "const char *feature"
41.Sh DESCRIPTION
42The
43.Fn feature_present
44function provides a method for an application to determine if a specific
45kernel feature is present in the currently running kernel.
46The
47.Fa feature
48argument specifies the name of the feature to check.
49The
50.Fn feature_present
51function will return 1 if the specified feature is present,
52otherwise it will return 0.
53If the
54.Fn feature_present
55function is not able to determine the presence of
56.Fa feature
57due to an internal error it will return 0.
58.Sh RETURN VALUES
59If
60.Fa feature
61is present then 1 is returned;
62otherwise 0 is returned.
63.Sh SEE ALSO
64.Xr sysconf 3 ,
65.Xr sysctl 3
66.Sh HISTORY
67The
68.Fn feature_present
69function first appeared in
70.Fx 8.0 .
71