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From: pizzi@esacs.UUCP (Riccardo Pizzi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Putenv() & Getenv() Bug ?
Message-ID: <106@esacs.UUCP>
Date: 20 Feb 91 23:58:24 GMT
References: <50356@olivea.atc.olivetti.com>
Reply-To: pizzi@esacs.UUCP (Riccardo Pizzi(JANE))
Organization: Esa Software s.r.l. Rimini (FO), ITALY
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In article <50356@olivea.atc.olivetti.com> borzieri@KING.ICO.OLIVETTI.COM (ivan borzieri) writes:

>in the first  c module I call the system function "putenv()" which should
>set a variable in the environment.

Make sure you are not using an automatic variable for putenv().
To be safe, explicitly malloc() the space for the data you want to
putenv(). This should work.

Rick
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