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Overall System Options
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   POSIX defines certain system-specific options that not all POSIX
systems support.  Since these options are provided in the kernel, not
in the library, simply using the GNU C library does not guarantee any
of these features is supported; it depends on the system you are using.

   You can test for the availability of a given option using the macros
in this section, together with the function `sysconf'.  The macros are
defined only if you include `unistd.h'.

   For the following macros, if the macro is defined in `unistd.h',
then the option is supported.  Otherwise, the option may or may not be
supported; use `sysconf' to find out.  Note: Sysconf.

 - Macro: int _POSIX_JOB_CONTROL
     If this symbol is defined, it indicates that the system supports
     job control.  Otherwise, the implementation behaves as if all
     processes within a session belong to a single process group.
     Note: Job Control.

 - Macro: int _POSIX_SAVED_IDS
     If this symbol is defined, it indicates that the system remembers
     the effective user and group IDs of a process before it executes an
     executable file with the set-user-ID or set-group-ID bits set, and
     that explicitly changing the effective user or group IDs back to
     these values is permitted.  If this option is not defined, then if
     a nonprivileged process changes its effective user or group ID to
     the real user or group ID of the process, it can't change it back
     again.  Note: Enable/Disable Setuid.

   For the following macros, if the macro is defined in `unistd.h',
then its value indicates whether the option is supported.  A value of
`-1' means no, and any other value means yes.  If the macro is not
defined, then the option may or may not be supported; use `sysconf' to
find out.  Note: Sysconf.

 - Macro: int _POSIX2_C_DEV
     If this symbol is defined, it indicates that the system has the
     POSIX.2 C compiler command, `c89'.  The GNU C library always
     defines this as `1', on the assumption that you would not have
     installed it if you didn't have a C compiler.

 - Macro: int _POSIX2_FORT_DEV
     If this symbol is defined, it indicates that the system has the
     POSIX.2 Fortran compiler command, `fort77'.  The GNU C library
     never defines this, because we don't know what the system has.

 - Macro: int _POSIX2_FORT_RUN
     If this symbol is defined, it indicates that the system has the
     POSIX.2 `asa' command to interpret Fortran carriage control.  The
     GNU C library never defines this, because we don't know what the
     system has.

 - Macro: int _POSIX2_LOCALEDEF
     If this symbol is defined, it indicates that the system has the
     POSIX.2 `localedef' command.  The GNU C library never defines
     this, because we don't know what the system has.

 - Macro: int _POSIX2_SW_DEV
     If this symbol is defined, it indicates that the system has the
     POSIX.2 commands `ar', `make', and `strip'.  The GNU C library
     always defines this as `1', on the assumption that you had to have
     `ar' and `make' to install the library, and it's unlikely that
     `strip' would be absent when those are present.