Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 16:13:49 +0200 From: dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org (Dirk Meyer) To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: getenv() and family API change Message-ID: <Xuu8UV3Bay@dmeyer.dinoex.sub.org> References: <20070703182400.Q1449@baba.farley.org>
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Hallo Sean C. Farley,
> Changes in moving to POSIX from historic BSD API:
> b. putenv takes a char * instead of const char *.
> c. putenv no longer makes a copy of the input string.
Can you give more details?
An application will break in using this:
putenv("PATH=/bin")
now taking a char *, this will break with gcc42.
kind regards Dirk
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