Re: getconf(1) / sysconf(3) - add additional variables?

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Jul 02, 2021 at 02:21:39PM +0100, Michael-John Turner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> While attempting to package Starship for pkgsrc, I noticed that getconf(1)
> is missing several variables that are available on both OpenBSD and
> FreeBSD (I'm assuming because they're not returned by sysconf(3)). For
> example, both OpenBSD and FreeBSD (and Linux and Darwin) support the
> LONG_BIT variable, but NetBSD doesn't.

Do you really mean sysconf(3)? I don't see how that makes sense.

But we could add

#define	LONG_BIT	__LONG_WIDTH

to <limits.h> inside proper #if guards.


Martin