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authoralex <alex@FreeBSD.org>1996-12-27 03:39:03 +0000
committeralex <alex@FreeBSD.org>1996-12-27 03:39:03 +0000
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Make a note in the standards section that sysconf isn't completely
POSIX conforming.
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diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/sysconf.3 b/lib/libc/gen/sysconf.3
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@@ -174,9 +174,10 @@ The value for _SC_STREAM_MAX is a minimum maximum, and required to be
the same as ANSI C's FOPEN_MAX, so the returned value is a ridiculously
small and misleading number.
.Sh STANDARDS
-The
+Except for the fact that values returned by
.Fn sysconf
-function conforms to
+may change over the lifetime of the calling process,
+this function conforms to
.St -p1003.1-88 .
.Sh HISTORY
The
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