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Date:      Thu, 2 Jan 2003 01:20:42 +0200
From:      Matthew West <mwest@uct.ac.za>
To:        Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Reading rc.conf from C programs?
Message-ID:  <20030102012042.A16965@apotheosis.org.za>
In-Reply-To: <3E1362FD.6070001@acm.org>; from "Tim Kientzle" on Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 01:51:57PM
References:  <3E1362FD.6070001@acm.org>

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On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 01:51:57PM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out how to read and use /etc/rc.conf
> configuration variables from within a C program.

You could perhaps copy the way that "The Fish" does it?

Take a look at "ports/sysutils/thefish".

The "parser.c" code appears to read /etc/{,defaults/}rc.conf and place
all the options into a linked list.

-- 
mwest@uct.ac.za


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