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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/gen/sysconf.3')
-rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/gen/sysconf.3 | 16 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/sysconf.3 b/lib/libc/gen/sysconf.3 index 53622f6..aca1a432 100644 --- a/lib/libc/gen/sysconf.3 +++ b/lib/libc/gen/sysconf.3 @@ -64,11 +64,11 @@ The available values are as follows: .Pp .It Li _SC_ARG_MAX The maximum bytes of argument to -.Xr exec 2 . +.Xr execve 2 . .It Li _SC_CHILD_MAX The maximum number of simultaneous processes per user id. .It Li _SC_CLK_TCK -Number of micro-seconds per hz tick. +The frequency of the statistics clock in ticks per second. .It Li _SC_NGROUPS_MAX The maximum number of supplemental groups. .It Li _SC_OPEN_MAX @@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ otherwise \-1. .El .Sh RETURN VALUES If the call to -.Nm sysconf +.Fn sysconf is not successful, \-1 is returned and .Va errno is set appropriately. @@ -174,11 +174,13 @@ 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 -.Nm sysconf -function first appeared in 4.4BSD. +.Fn sysconf +function first appeared in +.Bx 4.4 . |