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<h2 class="chapter">30 System Management</h2>
<p>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.
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<li><a accesskey="1" href="Host-Identification.html#Host-Identification">Host Identification</a>: Determining the name of the machine.
<li><a accesskey="2" href="Platform-Type.html#Platform-Type">Platform Type</a>: Determining operating system and basic
machine type
<li><a accesskey="3" href="Filesystem-Handling.html#Filesystem-Handling">Filesystem Handling</a>: Controlling/querying mounts
<li><a accesskey="4" href="System-Parameters.html#System-Parameters">System Parameters</a>: Getting and setting various system parameters
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<p>To get information on parameters of the system that are built into the
system, such as the maximum length of a filename, <a href="System-Configuration.html#System-Configuration">System Configuration</a>.
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