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Date:      Tue, 29 Jun 1999 09:56:59 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Amol Mohite <amol2@m-net.arbornet.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: environment strings
Message-ID:  <19990629095659.B86806@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.96.990628055303.13889A-100000@m-net.arbornet.org>; from Amol Mohite on Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 05:54:29AM -0400
References:  <19990628084759.937F414F6C@hub.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSI.3.96.990628055303.13889A-100000@m-net.arbornet.org>

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On Monday, 28 June 1999 at  5:54:29 -0400, Amol Mohite wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> i hope this is the right list for this qs.
>
> I wanted t know where the environment strings i bsd were stored after a
> program execs another one.

At the top of memory.  You can access them by the standard (but
undocumented) method:

int main (int argc, char *argv [], char *envp [])

envp is a pointer to the environment strings.  This is true for every
version of UNIX I know.

> Is there any place I ca get hold of the ABIs for freebsd ?

Can you be more specific?

Greg
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