options

[Winfried Truemper]

On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Ilmar S. Habibulin wrote:

> I read 1e draft and don't understand what is {_POSIX_*} options.

A system-wide setting of the operating system you use (and for
settings of boolean type you can think of them as feature-indicators).
The settings are called "system variables" and can be retrieved with
the getconf utility. Example:

	truemper at Octopussy> getconf NAME_MAX /usr
	255

Regards
-Winfried

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