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+.\" Copyright (c) 1993
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+.\"	@(#)confstr.3	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
+.\"
+.Dd June 4, 1993
+.Dt CONFSTR 3
+.Os BSD 4
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm confstr
+.Nd get string-valued configurable variables
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Fd #include <unistd.h>
+.Ft size_t
+.Fn confstr "int name" "char *buf" "size_t len"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Bf -symbolic
+This interface is obsoleted by sysctl(3).
+.Ef
+.Pp
+The
+.Fn confstr
+function provides a method for applications to get configuration
+defined string values.
+.Pp
+The
+.Fa name
+argument specifies the system variable to be queried.
+Symbolic constants for each name value are found in the include file
+.Li <unistd.h> .
+The
+.Fa len
+argument specifies the size of the buffer referenced by the
+argument
+.Fa buf .
+If
+.Fa len
+is non-zero,
+.Fa buf
+is a non-null pointer, and
+.Fa name
+has a value, up to
+.Fa len
+\- 1 bytes of the value are copied into the buffer 
+.Fa buf .
+The copied value is always null terminated.
+.Pp
+The available values are as follows:
+.Pp
+.Bl -tag -width "123456"
+.Pp
+.It Li _CS_PATH
+Return a value for the
+.Ev PATH
+environment variable that finds all the standard utilities.
+.El
+.Sh RETURN VALUES
+If the call to
+.Nm confstr
+is not successful, \-1 is returned and
+.Va errno
+is set appropriately.
+Otherwise, if the variable does not have a configuration defined value,
+0 is returned and
+.Va errno
+is not modified.
+Otherwise, the buffer size needed to hold the entire configuration-defined
+value is returned.
+If this size is greater than the argument
+.Fa len ,
+the string in
+.Fa buf
+was truncated.
+.Sh ERRORS
+The
+.Nm confstr
+function may fail and set
+.Va error
+for any of the errors specified for the library functions
+.Xr malloc 3
+and
+.Xr sysctl 3 .
+.Pp
+In addition, the following errors may be reported:
+.Bl -tag -width Er
+.It Bq Er EINVAL
+The value of the
+.Fa name
+argument is invalid.
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr sysctl 3
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Nm confstr
+function first appeared in 4.4BSD.