xref: /src/lib/libc/gen/sysctlnametomib.c

/*	$NetBSD: sysctlnametomib.c,v 1.1 2004/03/25 19:36:26 atatat Exp $ */

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#include <sys/param.h>
#include <sys/sysctl.h>

/*
 * freebsd compatible sysctlnametomib() function, implemented as an
 * extremely thin wrapper around sysctlgetmibinfo().  i think the use
 * of size_t as the third argument is erroneous, but what can we do
 * about that?
 */
int
sysctlnametomib(const char *gname, int *iname, size_t *namelenp)
{
	u_int unamelen;
	int rc;

	unamelen = *namelenp;
	rc = sysctlgetmibinfo(gname, iname, &unamelen, NULL, NULL, NULL,
			      SYSCTL_VERSION);
	*namelenp = unamelen;

	return (rc);
}