Sysconf(2)                Oct. 1, 1991                 Sysconf(2)



NAME
     Sysconf - get information about operating system  configura-
     tion

SYNOPSIS
     LONG Sysconf( WORD n );

DESCRIPTION
     Sysconf returns information about various limits or capabil-
     ities of the currently running version of MiNT. The variable
     n controls which limit or capability is  being  queried,  as
     follows:
             n Value Returned

          -1   return max. legal value for n in Sysconf(n)
          0    return max. number of memory regions per process
          1    return max. length of Pexec() command line string
          2    return max. number of open files per process
          3    return number of supplementary group id's
          4    return max. number of processes per user
     If any of these items are  unlimited,  then  0x7fffffffL  is
     returned.

SEE ALSO
     Dpathconf(2)






























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