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1 /* $NetBSD: sysctlbyname.c,v 1.4 2008/04/29 06:53:01 martin Exp $ */
3 /*-
4 * Copyright (c) 2003,2004 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
5 * All rights reserved.
7 * This code is derived from software contributed to The NetBSD Foundation
8 * by Andrew Brown.
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32 #include <sys/cdefs.h>
33 #if defined(LIBC_SCCS) && !defined(lint)
34 __RCSID("$NetBSD: sysctlbyname.c,v 1.4 2008/04/29 06:53:01 martin Exp $");
35 #endif /* LIBC_SCCS and not lint */
37 #include "namespace.h"
38 #include <sys/param.h>
39 #include <sys/sysctl.h>
41 #ifdef __weak_alias
42 __weak_alias(sysctlbyname,_sysctlbyname)
43 #endif
46 * trivial sysctlbyname() function for the "lazy".
48 int
49 sysctlbyname(const char *gname, void *oldp, size_t *oldlenp,
50 const void *newp, size_t newlen)
52 int name[CTL_MAXNAME], rc;
53 u_int namelen;
55 rc = sysctlgetmibinfo(gname, &name[0], &namelen, NULL, NULL, NULL,
56 SYSCTL_VERSION);
57 if (rc == 0)
58 rc = sysctl(&name[0], namelen, oldp, oldlenp, newp, newlen);
59 return (rc);