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- Submitted-by: rml@hpfcdc.fc.hp.com (Bob Lenk)
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- In article <16480@cs.utexas.edu>, jgd@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (John G Dobnick) writes:
-
- > Was consideration given to including some mechanism to retrieve
- > hardware configuration information via 'standard' means?
-
- Not much. Remember that the purpose of POSIX.1 was to define interfaces
- for portable applications. There is little if any use that a portable
- application can make of such information.
-
- Through the trial use standard (1986) there was an appendix (Appendix H)
- requiring each system to supply some such information off-line. That
- appendix was dropped in the first draft following trial use; the
- portions deemed useful were made available via interfaces like
- sysconf(), pathconf(), <limits.h>, and <unistd.h>.
-
- Bob Lenk
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- Volume-Number: Volume 22, Number 65
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