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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 24.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 25.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 26.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 27.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 28.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 29.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 30.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 31.\" 32.\" @(#)sysconf.3 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/19/94 33.\" 34.Dd April 19, 1994 35.Dt SYSCONF 3 36.Os BSD 4 37.Sh NAME 38.Nm sysconf 39.Nd get configurable system variables 40.Sh SYNOPSIS 41.Fd #include <unistd.h> 42.Ft long 43.Fn sysconf "int name" 44.Sh DESCRIPTION 45.Pp 46This interface is defined by 47.St -p1003.1-88 . 48A far more complete interface is available using 49.Xr sysctl 3 . 50.Pp 51The 52.Fn sysconf 53function provides a method for applications to determine the current 54value of a configurable system limit or option variable. 55The 56.Fa name 57argument specifies the system variable to be queried. 58Symbolic constants for each name value are found in the include file 59.Li <unistd.h> . 60.Pp 61The available values are as follows: 62.Pp 63.Bl -tag -width "123456" 64.Pp 65.It Li _SC_ARG_MAX 66The maximum bytes of argument to 67.Xr execve 2 . 68.It Li _SC_CHILD_MAX 69The maximum number of simultaneous processes per user id. 70.It Li _SC_CLK_TCK 71Number of micro-seconds per hz tick. 72.It Li _SC_NGROUPS_MAX 73The maximum number of supplemental groups. 74.It Li _SC_OPEN_MAX 75The maximum number of open files per user id. 76.It Li _SC_STREAM_MAX 77The minimum maximum number of streams that a process may have open 78at any one time. 79.It Li _SC_TZNAME_MAX 80The minimum maximum number of types supported for the name of a 81timezone. 82.It Li _SC_JOB_CONTROL 83Return 1 if job control is available on this system, otherwise \-1. 84.It Li _SC_SAVED_IDS 85Returns 1 if saved set-group and saved set-user ID is available, 86otherwise \-1. 87.It Li _SC_VERSION 88The version of ISO/IEC 9945 (POSIX 1003.1) with which the system 89attempts to comply. 90.It Li _SC_BC_BASE_MAX 91The maximum ibase/obase values in the 92.Xr bc 1 93utility. 94.It Li _SC_BC_DIM_MAX 95The maximum array size in the 96.Xr bc 1 97utility. 98.It Li _SC_BC_SCALE_MAX 99The maximum scale value in the 100.Xr bc 1 101utility. 102.It Li _SC_BC_STRING_MAX 103The maximum string length in the 104.Xr bc 1 105utility. 106.It Li _SC_COLL_WEIGHTS_MAX 107The maximum number of weights that can be assigned to any entry of 108the LC_COLLATE order keyword in the locale definition file. 109.It Li _SC_EXPR_NEST_MAX 110The maximum number of expressions that can be nested within 111parenthesis by the 112.Xr expr 1 113utility. 114.It Li _SC_LINE_MAX 115The maximum length in bytes of a text-processing utility's input 116line. 117.It Li _SC_RE_DUP_MAX 118The maximum number of repeated occurrences of a regular expression 119permitted when using interval notation. 120.It Li _SC_2_VERSION 121The version of POSIX 1003.2 with which the system attempts to comply. 122.It Li _SC_2_C_BIND 123Return 1 if the system's C-language development facilities support the 124C-Language Bindings Option, otherwise \-1. 125.It Li _SC_2_C_DEV 126Return 1 if the system supports the C-Language Development Utilities Option, 127otherwise \-1. 128.It Li _SC_2_CHAR_TERM 129Return 1 if the system supports at least one terminal type capable of 130all operations described in POSIX 1003.2, otherwise \-1. 131.It Li _SC_2_FORT_DEV 132Return 1 if the system supports the FORTRAN Development Utilities Option, 133otherwise \-1. 134.It Li _SC_2_FORT_RUN 135Return 1 if the system supports the FORTRAN Runtime Utilities Option, 136otherwise \-1. 137.It Li _SC_2_LOCALEDEF 138Return 1 if the system supports the creation of locales, otherwise \-1. 139.It Li _SC_2_SW_DEV 140Return 1 if the system supports the Software Development Utilities Option, 141otherwise \-1. 142.It Li _SC_2_UPE 143Return 1 if the system supports the User Portability Utilities Option, 144otherwise \-1. 145.El 146.Sh RETURN VALUES 147If the call to 148.Nm sysconf 149is not successful, \-1 is returned and 150.Va errno 151is set appropriately. 152Otherwise, if the variable is associated with functionality that is not 153supported, \-1 is returned and 154.Va errno 155is not modified. 156Otherwise, the current variable value is returned. 157.Sh ERRORS 158The 159.Fn sysconf 160function may fail and set 161.Va errno 162for any of the errors specified for the library functions 163.Xr sysctl 3 . 164In addition, the following error may be reported: 165.Bl -tag -width Er 166.It Bq Er EINVAL 167The value of the 168.Fa name 169argument is invalid. 170.Sh SEE ALSO 171.Xr sysctl 3 172.Sh BUGS 173The value for _SC_STREAM_MAX is a minimum maximum, and required to be 174the same as ANSI C's FOPEN_MAX, so the returned value is a ridiculously 175small and misleading number. 176.Sh STANDARDS 177The 178.Fn sysconf 179function conforms to 180.St -p1003.1-88 . 181.Sh HISTORY 182The 183.Nm sysconf 184function first appeared in 4.4BSD. 185