NetBSD/lib/libutil/getmaxpartitions.c

/*	$NetBSD: getmaxpartitions.c,v 1.3 1997/07/31 00:01:18 jtc Exp $	*/

/*-
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 * This code is derived from software contributed to The NetBSD Foundation
 * by Jason R. Thorpe.
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#include <sys/cdefs.h>
#if defined(LIBC_SCCS) && !defined(lint)
__RCSID("$NetBSD: getmaxpartitions.c,v 1.3 1997/07/31 00:01:18 jtc Exp $");
#endif

#include <sys/param.h>
#include <sys/sysctl.h>
#include <util.h>

int
getmaxpartitions()
{
	int maxpart, mib[2];
	size_t varlen;

	mib[0] = CTL_KERN;
	mib[1] = KERN_MAXPARTITIONS;
	varlen = sizeof(maxpart);
	if (sysctl(mib, 2, &maxpart, &varlen, NULL, 0) < 0)
		return (-1);

	return (maxpart);
}