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- Submitted-by: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
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- In article <16397@cs.utexas.edu> jgd@csd4.csd.uwm.edu writes:
- >Our CONVEX system, which claims POSIX compliance, has a system call
- >that returns "system configuration" information...
-
- It is important to understand that "POSIX compliant" invariably means
- "POSIX superset", since many significant functions are not part of the
- current POSIX standard, 1003.1. There is no POSIX `getsysinfo' call.
- The closest you get is `sysconf()', which can be used to ask about a
- few things like the maximum number of open files. None of the things
- you mention are in the list.
-
- > c) How does one interrogate the system, in a 'standard' way,
- > to determine physical memory size? (My initial guess is
- > that the answer will be "You don't.")
-
- Correct. In any case, it is typically not a very useful piece of
- information, since there is no simple correlation between the size of
- physical memory and how much your program is allowed to use.
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