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- /****************************************************************/
- /* */
- /* putenv(3) */
- /* */
- /* Change or add an environment entry */
- /* */
- /****************************************************************/
- /* origination 1987-Oct-7 T. Holm */
- /* (slightly modified by karl@cs.umb.edu for kpathsea.) */
- /****************************************************************/
-
- /* for HAVE_PUTENV and const -- need nothing else. */
- #include <kpathsea/c-auto.h>
-
- #ifndef HAVE_PUTENV /* whole file */
-
- /*
- Path: hoptoad!pacbell!ames!ll-xn!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!uvicctr!tholm
- From: tholm@uvicctr.UUCP (Terrence W. Holm)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
- Subject: putenv(3)
- Message-ID: <395@uvicctr.UUCP>
- Date: 5 May 88 06:40:52 GMT
- Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria B.C. Canada
-
- EFTH Minix report #2 - May 1988 - putenv(3)
-
- This is an implementation of putenv(3) that we
- wrote for Minix. Please consider this a public
- domain program.
- */
-
- #define NULL 0
- #define PSIZE sizeof(char *)
-
- extern char **environ;
-
- char *strchr();
- char *malloc();
-
- /****************************************************************/
- /* */
- /* int */
- /* putenv( entry ) */
- /* */
- /* The "entry" should follow the form */
- /* "NAME=VALUE". This routine will search the */
- /* user environment for "NAME" and replace its */
- /* value with "VALUE". */
- /* */
- /* Note that "entry" is not copied, it is used */
- /* as the environment entry. This means that it */
- /* must not be unallocated or otherwise modifed */
- /* by the caller, unless it is replaced by a */
- /* subsequent putenv(). */
- /* */
- /* If the name is not found in the environment, */
- /* then a new vector of pointers is allocated, */
- /* "entry" is put at the end and the global */
- /* variable "environ" is updated. */
- /* */
- /* This function normally returns 0, but -1 */
- /* is returned if it can not allocate enough */
- /* space using malloc(3), or "entry" does not */
- /* contain a '='. */
- /* */
- /****************************************************************/
-
-
- int
- putenv( entry )
- char *entry;
- {
- unsigned length;
- unsigned size;
- char *temp;
- char **p;
- char **new_environ;
-
- /* Find the length of the "NAME=" */
-
- temp = strchr(entry,'=');
- if ( temp == 0 )
- return( -1 );
-
- length = (unsigned) (temp - entry + 1);
-
-
- /* Scan through the environment looking for "NAME=" */
-
- for ( p=environ; *p != 0 ; p++ )
- if ( strncmp( entry, *p, length ) == 0 )
- {
- *p = entry;
- return( 0 );
- }
-
-
- /* The name was not found, build a bigger environment */
-
- size = p - environ;
-
- new_environ = (char **) malloc( (size+2)*PSIZE );
-
- if ( new_environ == (char **) NULL )
- return( -1 );
-
- memcpy ((char *) new_environ, (const char *) environ, size*PSIZE );
-
- new_environ[size] = entry;
- new_environ[size+1] = NULL;
-
- environ = new_environ;
-
- return(0);
- }
-
- #endif /* not HAVE_PUTENV */
-