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.\" Modified Wed Jul 28 11:12:26 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
-.TH FPATHCONF 3 1993-04-04 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.\"
+.\" FIXME Probably all of the following should be documented:
+.\" _PC_SYNC_IO,
+.\" _PC_ASYNC_IO,
+.\" _PC_PRIO_IO,
+.\" _PC_SOCK_MAXBUF,
+.\" _PC_FILESIZEBITS,
+.\" _PC_REC_INCR_XFER_SIZE,
+.\" _PC_REC_MAX_XFER_SIZE,
+.\" _PC_REC_MIN_XFER_SIZE,
+.\" _PC_REC_XFER_ALIGN,
+.\" _PC_ALLOC_SIZE_MIN,
+.\" _PC_SYMLINK_MAX,
+.\" _PC_2_SYMLINKS
+.\"
+.TH FPATHCONF 3 2014-05-28 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
fpathconf, pathconf \- get configuration values for files
.SH SYNOPSIS
.sp
.BI "long fpathconf(int " fd ", int " name );
.br
-.BI "long pathconf(char *" path ", int " name );
+.BI "long pathconf(const char *" path ", int " name );
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
.BR fpathconf ()
or
.I path
must refer to a terminal.
-.SH "RETURN VALUE"
+.SH RETURN VALUE
The limit is returned, if one exists.
If the system does not have a
limit for the requested resource, \-1 is returned, and
If there is an error, \-1 is returned, and
.I errno
is set to reflect the nature of the error.
-.SH "CONFORMING TO"
+.SH CONFORMING TO
POSIX.1-2001.
.SH NOTES
Files with name lengths longer than the value returned for
.PP
Some returned values may be huge; they are not suitable for allocating
memory.
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.SH SEE ALSO
.BR getconf (1),
.BR open (2),
.BR statfs (2),
+.BR confstr (3),
.BR sysconf (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/.