On Thu, 2023-02-02 at 15:28 -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Jon LaBadie jonfu@jgcomp.com said:
I'd also like to see some docs on the meanings of the variables. For example, is ARG_MAX the maximum NUMBER of args or the maximum total length? I assume the former.
It's the max total length (and includes the environment variable size).
The difference in man page availability is due to this coming from the POSIX spec, which is in the man-pages-posix package. However, The Open Group changed the license to something not compatible with Fedora, so that package was moved to RPM Fusion.
You can also see the POSIX/Single Unix Specification here:
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2018edition/
So Fedora can supply the executable (and source) but not the documentation? Is there something wrong with this picture?
Why can't Fedora provide at least a skeleton man page that points to the POSIX doc?
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