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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message