Glenn Fowler wrote: > On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 13:22:44 -0700 (PDT) Don Cragun wrote: > > Because an implementation may support multiple standard environments > > concurrently, it may need various versions of getconf to conform to > > various standards' requirements. There are some open bugs on the way > > the Solaris getconf utilities currently behave, but besides various > > minimum and maximum values, the value returned by `getconf PATH` also > > varies. Note that with appropriate values for the -v option's > > option-argument, all versions of getconf should be able to return > > appropriate values for any supported programming environment. Note > > also that min and max values also vary for 32-bit and 64-bit > > environments. > > thanks Don, that cleared it up
BTW: The Solaris "getconf" sources can be found at http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/cmd/getconf/ ... ... however looking at the Makefiles scares me a lot - it makes explicit usage of things like "values-xpg4.o" which are incompatible to the way how we compile ksh93 in Solaris where we explicitly enable C99 by default (for a coupld of complex reasons) - which makes it very difficult to deal with the issue (I really wish the Solaris "getccnf" binary wouldn't rely on suck hacks... ;-(( ) ... ;-( ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
