X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,FREEMAIL_FROM,NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Oleksandr Gavenko Subject: Where is 'getconf' utility? Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 00:55:30 +0200 Lines: 44 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.1.6 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com I can not found 'getconf' utility in Cygwin. http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=getconf I search that same reported in 2003 and found some article where people have portability issue because utility is missing, like: http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2008/03/05/hacking-threading-building-blocks-into-cygwin-part-2/ 'getconf' utility present in POSIX 2003/2008. I don't know if utility mention in POSIX it must be implemented in POSIX compliance env. Also as state cygwin-ug-net-nochunks.html: Early on in the development process, we made the important design decision that it would not be necessary to strictly adhere to existing UNIX standards like POSIX.1 if it was not possible or if it would significantly diminish the usability of the tools on the Win32 platform. As I understand if it will be exist it must included in 'cygwin' package because this package provide: /usr/include/limits.h ... /usr/lib/libc.a ... etc. and I see 'libc6' for Debian also contain /usr/bin/getconf. In web I found many realisation of this utility (ever with BSD licence from NetBSD). They so simple that I think that no any portability issue occurred. Does it must be included in Cygwin and make it more POSIX compliance? -- Best regards! -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple