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System Management
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   This chapter describes facilities for controlling the system that
underlies a process (including the operating system and hardware) and
for getting information about it.  Anyone can generally use the
informational facilities, but usually only a properly privileged process
can make changes.

Host Identification

Determining the name of the machine.

Platform Type

Determining operating system and basic

machine type

Filesystem Handling

Controlling/querying mounts

System Parameters

Getting and setting various system parameters

   To get information on parameters of the system that are built into
the system, such as the maximum length of a filename, Note: System
Configuration.