From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 2 12:56:23 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B6B737B401 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 12:56:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DC6543EB2 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 12:56:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@freebsd.org) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h02KuGF4004968; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 21:56:16 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@freebsd.org) To: wgrim@siue.edu Cc: kientzle@acm.org, Terry Lambert , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reading rc.conf from C programs? From: phk@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Jan 2003 14:51:14 CST." <1041540674.3e14a642d30b5@webmail1.isg.siue.edu> Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 21:56:16 +0100 Message-ID: <4967.1041540976@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <1041540674.3e14a642d30b5@webmail1.isg.siue.edu>, wgrim@siue.edu wri tes: >Well, perhaps I'm missing something here, but can't you just tokenize the items >in rc.conf using strtok after opening up the file in your C program? Only if you parse and evaluate the entire /bin/sh syntax. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message