Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 11:24:21 +0530 From: Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com> To: Tony Maher <anthony.maher@uts.edu.au> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: getenv semantics Message-ID: <84dead720510152254j5a75ee1ewad3b7556145fca3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4351DEDE.9000900@uts.edu.au> References: <4351DEDE.9000900@uts.edu.au>
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> Is this analysis correct? Can someone point me to the (a?) > standard that describes this. The FreeBSD behaviour makes > sense, I am trying to understand what is the expected > behaviour on other platforms. >From "The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6" http://www.cnop.net/docs/susv3/functions/getenv.html "The getenv() function shall search the environment of the calling process (see the Base Definitions volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Chapter 8, Environment Variables) for the environment variable name if it exists and return a pointer to the value of the environment variable. If the specified environment variable cannot be found, a null pointer shall be returned." -- FreeBSD Volunteer, http://people.freebsd.org/~jkoshy
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