On November 18, 2002 at 20:43, Jon Steinhart wrote:
Oh, some details.
1. A second getenv() call would not break the code. The copy was really
unnecessary.
As pointed out earlier, making the copy may be needed depending on the
implementation of getenv() for a given platform. And for all
Jon Steinhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
3.If the $HOME environment variable is set, mypath is copied from the
getenv return. Why? It's never changed.
4.If the $HOME environment variable is not set, mypath is copied from the
pw_dir member of the returned passwd
Jon Steinhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
3. If the $HOME environment variable is set, mypath is copied from the
getenv return. Why? It's never changed.
4. If the $HOME environment variable is not set, mypath is copied from the
pw_dir member of the returned passwd
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 22:47, Eric Gillespie wrote:
Jon Steinhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
3. If the $HOME environment variable is set, mypath is copied from the
getenv return. Why? It's never changed.
4. If the $HOME environment variable is not set, mypath is copied from the
Greg Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The return value of getenv() is a pointer into the environment; a future
getenv() call will not overwrite it. So it's safe not to copy it unless
you anticipate a putenv(). (And I think it's safe even in the face of a
putenv(), actually.) A judgement
Eric Gillespie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I just checked Harbison Steele, and according to them ISO C
does not allow calls to putenv to modify the getenv return
value, and as seen above, nor does POSIX (though the XSI
extension does). Maybe i'm just not very imaginative at this
late hour,
Jon Steinhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
5.There's code that removes a trailing / from mypath if mypath is more
than one character long. Seems completely unnecessary; the definition
of path names means that // is interpreted as /. And if that wasn't
the case, this code
I've started working on the changes for the mh installation thing discussed
earlier. My plan is to modify context_read() to print a message instead of
invoking install-mh, and to add a -check option to install-mh that allows it
to silently check for installation, returning the status via the exit
