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From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
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On 2007-Jul-10 19:41:48 +0400, Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> wrote:
>To say strictly, copying somewhere is not neccessary since this way works=
=20
>too:
>
>static char *s =3D "PATH=3D/bin";
>
>putenv(s);

I thought the C compiler was still free to place the string into RO
memory and/or coalesce it with other strings in that case.

Wouldn't the following be clearer (s is forced to be writable):

static char s[] =3D "PATH=3D/bin";

putenv(s);

--=20
Peter Jeremy

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