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Date:      Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:37:19 -0700
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ashish Shukla ???????????? ??????????????? <wahjava.ml@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Is _environ present in 7.0-RELEASE ?
Message-ID:  <20080811123719.GA23937@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
In-Reply-To: <87ljz3sq02.fsf@chateau.d.lf>
References:  <200808111538.09660.wahjava.ml@gmail.com> <20080811112119.GA20914@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <87ljz3sq02.fsf@chateau.d.lf>

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On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 05:49:41PM +0530, Ashish Shukla ???????????? ??????????????? wrote:
> Jeremy Chadwick writes:
> > On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 03:38:04PM +0530, Ashish Shukla wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> >> The '__environ' symbol is also not defined. Can anyone hint me, what is misconfigured on my box ?
> 
> > Something tells me this might interest you.  See the most recent commit:
> 
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/stdlib/getenv.c
> 
> Sorry, but I'm not able to figure out, what relevant stuff there is
> relevant here. I checked out the diff[1] (with the previous commit) and
> the recent commit 1.12.2.2[2], but not able to find anything
> relevant. Could you please elaborate, what are you trying to say ?

1) The only variable exported to a process from libc is "environ",
not __environ or _environ.  Look at src/lib/libc/stdlib/getenv.c for
an example, and confirmation.

2) Your code assigns environ = NULL, which is why I felt the above
commit has relevancy to you.  You should be aware that there are many
different conditions where clearing environ on FreeBSD behaves
differently compared to other OSes; the commit makes it compatible with
pretty much everything.

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| Jeremy Chadwick                                jdc at parodius.com |
| Parodius Networking                       http://www.parodius.com/ |
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