LDP: Update original to LDP v3.79

[linuxjm/LDP_man-pages.git] / original / man3 / confstr.3

diff --git a/original/man3/confstr.3 b/original/man3/confstr.3
index cc5c633..c39c1db 100644 (file)
--- a/original/man3/confstr.3
+++ b/original/man3/confstr.3
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 .\" Copyright (c) 1993 by Thomas Koenig (ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de)
 .\"
+.\" %%%LICENSE_START(VERBATIM)
 .\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
 .\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
 .\" preserved on all copies.
@@ -19,14 +20,16 @@
 .\"
 .\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by
 .\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work.
-.\" License.
+.\" %%%LICENSE_END
+.\"
 .\" Modified Sat Jul 24 19:53:02 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
 .\" FIXME Many more values for 'name' are supported, some of which
 .\"    are documented under 'info confstr'.
 .\"    See <bits/confname.h> for the rest.
 .\"    These should all be added to this page.
 .\"    See also the POSIX.1-2001 specification of confstr()
-.TH CONFSTR 3  2010-02-03 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.\"
+.TH CONFSTR 3  2014-03-20 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 confstr \- get configuration dependent string variables
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -76,7 +79,7 @@ copies the value of the string to
 .I buf
 truncated to
 .I len \- 1
-characters if necessary, with a null byte (\(aq\\0\(aq) as terminator.
+bytes if necessary, with a null byte (\(aq\\0\(aq) as terminator.
 This can be detected by comparing the return value of
 .BR confstr ()
 against
@@ -89,7 +92,7 @@ is zero and
 is NULL,
 .BR confstr ()
 just returns the value as defined below.
-.SH "RETURN VALUE"
+.SH RETURN VALUE
 If
 .I name
 is a valid configuration variable,
@@ -119,10 +122,10 @@ is set to
 .SH ERRORS
 .TP
 .B EINVAL
-If the value of
+The value of
 .I name
 is invalid.
-.SH "CONFORMING TO"
+.SH CONFORMING TO
 POSIX.1-2001.
 .SH EXAMPLE
 The following code fragment determines the path where to find
@@ -134,14 +137,27 @@ the POSIX.2 system utilities:
 char *pathbuf;
 size_t n;
 
-n = confstr(_CS_PATH,NULL,(size_t) 0);
+n = confstr(_CS_PATH, NULL, (size_t) 0);
 pathbuf = malloc(n);
 if (pathbuf == NULL)
     abort();
 confstr(_CS_PATH, pathbuf, n);
 .in
 .fi
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR getconf (1),
 .BR sh (1),
 .BR exec (3),
+.BR fpathconf (3)
+.BR sysconf (3)
+.BR pathconf (3)
 .BR system (3)
+.SH COLOPHON
+This page is part of release 3.79 of the Linux
+.I man-pages
+project.
+A description of the project,
+information about reporting bugs,
+and the latest version of this page,
+can be found at
+\%http://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.