Novell Doc: NDK: Libraries for C (LibC), Volume 1

Syntax

  #include <unistd.h> 
   
  long pathconf (
     cons char   *path,
     int          name);

path: (IN) Points to a pathname of the file or directory.
name: (IN) Specifies a variable to be queried relative to the path parameter. For a list of supported variable, see Path Configuration Variables.

If successful, returns the value of the variable specified by the name parameter. Otherwise, returns -1 and sets errno to one of the following:

Decimal	Constant	Description
1	ENOENT	A component of path does not name an existing file.
6	EACCES	Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.
9	EINVAL	The value of name is not valid, or not valid for the specified file.
65	ENAMETOOLONG	The length of the path argument exceeds the maximum path length, or a pathname component is longer than the maximum name length.
67	ENOTDIR	A component of the path prefix is not a directory.

The pathconf function can return -1 without setting a value in errno if the value of any of the name flags is unspecified.