C code for parsing rc.conf?

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 15:18, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> > The shell's environment will be exported to your program's environment.
>
> Not quite.  This approach gives you the rc.conf settings
> intermingled with the rest of the environment, which is
> probably not what you want.
>
> (It's okay if you're just testing a few particular
> rc.conf settings, but if you want to collect an accurate
> list of all rc.conf settings, it won't do.)

And it still only gives you read-only access to shell-trick mangled 
parameters.

I suspect those are pretty rare and a parser which noted which parameters it 
couldn't parse and reproduced them verbatim out write-out would probably be 
OK.

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