Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 21:06:04 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: getting the kernel environment? Message-ID: <200006120406.VAA16187@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 11 Jun 2000 20:28:25 PDT." <20000611202824.U18462@fw.wintelcom.net>
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> How does one get the environment passed from the loader to the > kernel from userland? > > Yes, I see the sysctl_kernenv in kern_environment.c, but I'm having > trouble decyphering as how to use it. Use the sysctl lookup function to get the OID for kern.environment, then tack an integer on the end and start incrementing it until you get ENOENT. Basically the same way you get the list of network interfaces. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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