The BSDs and sysconf()

[Chris Sherlock]

sysconf() first appeared in BSD4.4, which was sometime before the year 2003

It’s been around for a long, long time. I’m genuinely unclear why we are checking for this, given that it has literally been in BSD for such a long time now!

Chris

> On 23 Jun 2017, at 3:55 am, Noel Grandin <noelgrandin at gmail.com> wrote:
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> The relevant question is not whether they support it __now__, but if they support it in the oldest version of those operating systems that we support.
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> If you can find out when each of those OS's gained support for that, then we can possibly drop that support. At the very least, even if we don't drop support, we should add a comment there, so we know when we can drop support.
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