Am Donnerstag, 24. Juli 2008 schrieb Sam Varshavchik: > David Diffenbaugh writes: > > I found an error in the patch I just posted, I have attached the > > correction. I had used sizeof() where it should have been strlen(). > > Linux documentation for putenv reads: > > The string pointed to by string becomes part of > the environment, so altering the string changes the environment. > > You free()ing the string alters the environment, and this breaks on Linux. > > The Linux man page for putenv contains a bit of history of the various > versions of putenv and its behavior according to a number of historical > standards: http://manpages.courier-mta.org/htmlman3/putenv.3.html > > Given all this mess, that's why the code was changed to use setenv(), whose > semantics are somewhat more stable. This is not the correct solution for > this issue, a different approach will probably be necessary -- something > that's conditionally compiled only for Solaris 9.
Something like a special file that implements setenv() using putenv() and that is only linked in if compiled on Solaris. Eike
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