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lynx-dev Re: putenv
From: |
Kim DeVaughn |
Subject: |
lynx-dev Re: putenv |
Date: |
Thu, 21 Jan 1999 01:35:39 -0800 |
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999, Klaus Weide (address@hidden) said:
|
| With linux/glibc, I also get a core dump with Bela's unmodified
| example. The statement
| foo[6] = 'z';
| is invalid because it is modifying a constant string.
Ooops ... I should've looked more closely at that, instead of concluding
that the sig-10 was a result of subsequent getenv() call.
With your modified code, I too get:
bar
bar
on FreeBSD (2.2.8-STABLE), which is probably why there are no warnings
about alllocation methods, etc, in the FreeBSD man page.
| The linxu manpage I have for putenv(3) also doesn't document any such
| restrictions. It would be nice if it had a warning that other systems might
| have them, for portability.
Portability ... what's "portability"?
Oh, yeah ... that's what #ifdef's are for ... :-) ...?
/kim