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There is important information about booting non-ack images in docs/UPDATING. ack/aout-format images can't be built any more, and booting clang/ELF-format ones is a little different. Updating to the new boot monitor is recommended. Changes in this commit: . drop boot monitor -> allowing dropping ack support . facility to copy ELF boot files to /boot so that old boot monitor can still boot fairly easily, see UPDATING . no more ack-format libraries -> single-case libraries . some cleanup of OBJECT_FMT, COMPILER_TYPE, etc cases . drop several ack toolchain commands, but not all support commands (e.g. aal is gone but acksize is not yet). . a few libc files moved to netbsd libc dir . new /bin/date as minix date used code in libc/ . test compile fix . harmonize includes . /usr/lib is no longer special: without ack, /usr/lib plays no kind of special bootstrapping role any more and bootstrapping is done exclusively through packages, so releases depend even less on the state of the machine making them now. . rename nbsd_lib* to lib* . reduce mtree
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.\" $NetBSD: confstr.3,v 1.20 2010/04/22 08:00:34 jruoho Exp $
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.\" Copyright (c) 1993
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.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\" @(#)confstr.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
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.\"
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.Dd April 22, 2010
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.Dt CONFSTR 3
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm confstr
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.Nd get string-valued configurable variables
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.Sh LIBRARY
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.Lb libc
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In unistd.h
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.Ft size_t
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.Fn confstr "int name" "char *buf" "size_t len"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Bf -symbolic
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This interface is obsoleted by
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.Xr sysctl 3 .
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.Ef
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.Pp
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The
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.Fn confstr
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function provides a method for applications to get configuration
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defined string values.
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.Pp
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The
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.Fa name
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argument specifies the system variable to be queried.
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Symbolic constants for each name value are found in the
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.In unistd.h
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header.
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The
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.Fa len
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argument specifies the size of the buffer referenced by the
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argument
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.Fa buf .
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If
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.Fa len
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is non-zero,
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.Fa buf
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is a non-null pointer, and
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.Fa name
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has a value, up to
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.Fa len
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\- 1 bytes of the value are copied into the buffer
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.Fa buf .
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The copied value is always null terminated.
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.Pp
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The available values are as follows:
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.Pp
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.Bl -tag -width "123456"
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.It Li _CS_PATH
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Return a value for the
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.Ev PATH
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environment variable that finds all the standard utilities.
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.El
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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If the call to
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.Nm confstr
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is not successful, 0 is returned and
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.Va errno
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is set appropriately.
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Otherwise, if the variable does not have a configuration defined value,
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0 is returned and
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.Va errno
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is not modified.
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Otherwise, the buffer size needed to hold the entire configuration-defined
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value is returned.
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If this size is greater than the argument
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.Fa len ,
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the string in
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.Fa buf
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was truncated.
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.Sh ERRORS
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The
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.Nm confstr
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function may fail and set
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.Va error
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for any of the errors specified for the library functions
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.Xr malloc 3
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and
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.Xr sysctl 3 .
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.Pp
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In addition, the following errors may be reported:
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.Bl -tag -width Er
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.It Bq Er EINVAL
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The value of the
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.Fa name
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argument is invalid.
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr sysctl 3
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.Sh STANDARDS
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The
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.Nm confstr
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function conforms to
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.St -p1003.2-92 .
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm confstr
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function first appeared in
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.Bx 4.4 .
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.Sh BUGS
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The standards require us to return 0 both on errors, and when the value
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is not set.
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