 | | Before the standardization of POSIX, most of the configuration limits and other values discussed in this chapter were defined as constants in various system include files. This required the user to recompile programs on each system to which they were moved (in order to obtain the proper values for that system), and also to recompile any time one of these values changed. Now that these parameters are for the most part obtainable at run-time, you can write programs that are not only more portable, but also more efficient. | |
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