Finding physical memory size
Bob Lenk
rml at hpfcdc.fc.hp.com
Tue Jan 8 09:23:23 AEST 1991
Submitted-by: rml at hpfcdc.fc.hp.com (Bob Lenk)
In article <16480 at cs.utexas.edu>, jgd at csd4.csd.uwm.edu (John G Dobnick) writes:
> Was consideration given to including some mechanism to retrieve
> hardware configuration information via 'standard' means?
Not much. Remember that the purpose of POSIX.1 was to define interfaces
for portable applications. There is little if any use that a portable
application can make of such information.
Through the trial use standard (1986) there was an appendix (Appendix H)
requiring each system to supply some such information off-line. That
appendix was dropped in the first draft following trial use; the
portions deemed useful were made available via interfaces like
sysconf(), pathconf(), <limits.h>, and <unistd.h>.
Bob Lenk
rml at fc.hp.com
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