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34 #include <sys/types.h>
35 #include <sys/sysctl.h>
42 * Amount of extra space we allocate to try and anticipate the size of
45 #define GEOM_GETXML_SLACK 4096
48 * Number of times to retry in the face of the size of confxml exceeding
51 #define GEOM_GETXML_RETRIES 4
62 sizep = sizeof(mib) / sizeof(*mib);
63 if (sysctlnametomib("kern.geom.confxml", mib, &sizep) != 0)
65 if (sysctl(mib, sizep, NULL, &l, NULL, 0) != 0)
67 l += GEOM_GETXML_SLACK;
69 for (retries = 0; retries < GEOM_GETXML_RETRIES; retries++) {
73 if (sysctl(mib, sizep, p, &l, NULL, 0) == 0)
74 return (reallocf(p, strlen(p) + 1));
82 * Our buffer wasn't big enough. Make it bigger and