Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!datangua
From: datangua@watmath.waterloo.edu (David Tanguay)
Subject: Re: Putenv() & Getenv() Bug ?
Message-ID: <1991Feb18.112946.27312@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <50361@olivea.atc.olivetti.com> <1991Feb15.151849.5269@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <448@bria>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 1991 11:29:46 GMT
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In article <448@bria> uunet!bria!mike writes:
|[ in response to a question on putenv() and getenv() ]
|I don't believe that this is as system-specific as you would would like to
|believe.  I have not yet encountered a C library that didn't include these
|two _subroutines_ regardless of operating system.

The you've led a sheltered life :-)
I've seen several compilers without putenv on operating systems that don't
have environments. Both are easy to nop out, but any program that uses
putenv probably needs the proper semantics; getenv is more often used
to override program defaults.
-- 
David Tanguay            Software Development Group, University of Waterloo