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35 .Nd Options string management
39 .Fn optstr_get "const char *optstr" "const char *key" "char *buf" "size_t bufsize"
41 An options string is a list of key/value pairs represented in textual form.
42 Each pair is expressed as
44 and is separated from other pairs by one or more spaces.
47 key1=value1 key2=value2 key3=value3
50 Options strings are used to pass information between userland programs and
51 the kernel in a binary-agnostic way.
52 This makes them endianness and ABI independent.
54 The following functions are provided to manage options strings:
55 .Bl -tag -width compact
56 .It Fn optstr_get "optstr" "key" "buf" "bufsize"
59 options string looking for the key
61 and stores its value in the buffer pointed to by
68 if the key was found or
70 otherwise, in which case
75 The options string management functions are implemented within the files
76 .Pa sys/kern/subr_optstr.c
78 .Pa sys/sys/optstr.h .
80 Options strings appeared in