sysctlnametomib.c revision 1.1 
1/*	$NetBSD: sysctlnametomib.c,v 1.1 2004/03/25 19:36:26 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 <sys/param.h>
36#include <sys/sysctl.h>
37
38/*
39 * freebsd compatible sysctlnametomib() function, implemented as an
40 * extremely thin wrapper around sysctlgetmibinfo().  i think the use
41 * of size_t as the third argument is erroneous, but what can we do
42 * about that?
43 */
44int
45sysctlnametomib(const char *gname, int *iname, size_t *namelenp)
46{
47	u_int unamelen;
48	int rc;
49
50	unamelen = *namelenp;
51	rc = sysctlgetmibinfo(gname, iname, &unamelen, NULL, NULL, NULL,
52			      SYSCTL_VERSION);
53	*namelenp = unamelen;
54
55	return (rc);
56}
57