Re: [Bug-gnubg] New: Setting language within gnubg

[Holger]

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 18:08:54 +0200, Jim Segrave wrote:
> On Wed 27 Aug 2003 (16:10 +0200), Jim Segrave wrote:
> > I've put in a couple of fixes.
> > 
> > char *szLang="system"; can put the string "system" in read-only
> >   memory. It could also be overwritten with longer strings. I don't
> >   think this was the problem
> 
> This is slightly wrong - the original was char szLang[]= "system";
> which would not be a candiate for read only memory (but isn't big
> enough for what CommandSetLang() does. 

Oops, overlooked this.

> > putenv(char *envstring) under glibc puts the actual pointer envstring
> > into the environment, so it can not be a local variable. Under FreeBSD
> > and Solaris, a copy of envstring is put in the environment, under
> > Linux the environment variable disappears and is replaced with junk.
> > 
> > I don't know if this is the cause, but I've committed a fix.

Thanks.

Regards,

        Holger