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Nope, I’m mistaken. This has been in the FreeBSD sources since 1998!

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/lib/libc/gen/sysconf.c?r1=12674&r2=34030 
<https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/lib/libc/gen/sysconf.c?r1=12674&r2=34030>

Chris

On 23 Jun 2017, at 7:39 am, Chris Sherlock <chris.sherlock79@gmail.com> wrote:

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@gmail.com> wrote:

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.


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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