sysctlbyname.c revision 1.2 
1/*	$NetBSD: sysctlbyname.c,v 1.2 2004/04/08 05:45:26 atatat Exp $ */
2
3/*-
4 * Copyright (c) 2003,2004 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
5 *	All rights reserved.
6 *
7 * This code is derived from software contributed to The NetBSD Foundation
8 * by Andrew Brown.
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33 */
34
35#include "namespace.h"
36#include <sys/param.h>
37#include <sys/sysctl.h>
38
39#ifdef __weak_alias
40__weak_alias(sysctlbyname,_sysctlbyname)
41#endif
42
43/*
44 * trivial sysctlbyname() function for the "lazy".
45 */
46int
47sysctlbyname(const char *gname, void *oldp, size_t *oldlenp, void *newp,
48	     size_t newlen)
49{
50	int name[CTL_MAXNAME], rc;
51	u_int namelen;
52
53	rc = sysctlgetmibinfo(gname, &name[0], &namelen, NULL, NULL, NULL,
54			      SYSCTL_VERSION);
55	if (rc == 0)
56		rc = sysctl(&name[0], namelen, oldp, oldlenp, newp, newlen);
57	return (rc);
58}
59