Tim Kientzle wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out how to read and use
> /etc/rc.conf configuration variables from within
> a C program.  The standard technique, of course,
> is to use a shell-script wrapper and pass the
> extracted values to the C program on the command
> line.  But I want access to _all_ of the rc.conf
> variables, not just a couple of them, and I don't
> see any reasonable way to accomplish that with a
> shell wrapper.

        #!/bin/sh
        #
        # Throw all of rc.conf into the environemnet so a C program
        # named "fred" can read any of them with "getenv".
        
        . /etc/rc.conf
        fred

8-).

> Has anyone done anything like this before?

Yeah.  fopen(3), for(;;) { fgets(3), strtok(3) } fclose(3).

-- Terry

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