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Rewrote RETURN VALUE discussion.
Updated CONFORMING TO. Removed BUGS.
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.SH "RETURN VALUE"
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If
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.I name
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is a valid configuration variable,
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.BR confstr ()
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returns the number of bytes (including the terminating null byte)
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that would be required to hold the entire value of that variable.
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This value may be greater than
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.IR len ,
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which means that the value in
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.I buf
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is truncated.
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If
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.I name
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is a valid configuration variable,
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but that variable does not have a value, then
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.I confstr ()
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returns 0.
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If
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.I name
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does not correspond to a valid configuration variable,
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.BR confstr ()
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returns 0.
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returns 0, and
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.I errno
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is set to
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.BR EINVAL .
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.SH ERRORS
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.BR EINVAL .
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If the value of
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.I name
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is invalid.
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.SH EXAMPLES
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The following code fragment determines the path where to find
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the POSIX.2 system utilities:
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n = confstr(_CS_PATH,NULL,(size_t)0);
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if ((pathbuf = malloc(n)) == NULL) abort();
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confstr(_CS_PATH, pathbuf, n);
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.SH ERRORS
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If the value of
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.I name
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is invalid,
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.I errno
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is set to
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.BR EINVAL .
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.SH "CONFORMING TO"
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proposed POSIX.2
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.SH BUGS
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POSIX.2 is not yet an approved standard; the information in this
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manpage is subject to change.
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POSIX.1-2001
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR sh (1),
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.BR exec (3),
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