Terry Lambert wrote:
Tim Kientzle wrote:
I'm trying to figure out how to read and use
/etc/rc.conf configuration variables from within
a C program.
#!/bin/sh
# Throw all of rc.conf into the environemnet so a C program
# named "fred" can read any of them with "getenv".
. /etc/rc.conf
fred
This doesn't work. /etc/rc.conf does not export
its variables to the environment. It only sets them in the
local shell. Try the above where 'fred' is
#!/bin/sh
printenv
and you'll see what I mean.
Has anyone done anything like this before?
Yeah. fopen(3), for(;;) { fgets(3), strtok(3) } fclose(3).
This is what 'thefish' and 'sysinstall' both do,
more or less. Of course, this doesn't work in all
cases. (Witness the last 20 lines or so of
/etc/defaults/rc.conf to understand why
this doesn't work.)
rc.conf is _not_ a list of variable=value
pairs. It is a shell script that sets
a number of shell variables. Nothing
less than a full-fledged implementation
of /bin/sh is gauranteed to work in all
cases.
Which comes back to the question in
my original posting: does anyone have
sample code for manipulating a slave
/bin/sh using popen? or, alternatively,
has anyone modified /bin/sh to operate
as an embedded interpreter?
Tim Kientzle
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