X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/apple/libc.git/blobdiff_plain/9385eb3d10ebe5eb398c52040ec3dbfba9b0cdcf..2acb89982f71719aec26ca16705bd2c0400a9550:/stdlib/FreeBSD/getenv.3 diff --git a/stdlib/FreeBSD/getenv.3 b/stdlib/FreeBSD/getenv.3 index 32cdd8f..6bcaa26 100644 --- a/stdlib/FreeBSD/getenv.3 +++ b/stdlib/FreeBSD/getenv.3 @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" @(#)getenv.3 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/11/93 -.\" $FreeBSD: src/lib/libc/stdlib/getenv.3,v 1.13 2002/12/18 13:33:03 ru Exp $ +.\" $FreeBSD: src/lib/libc/stdlib/getenv.3,v 1.16 2004/07/07 19:57:13 ru Exp $ .\" .Dd December 11, 1993 .Dt GETENV 3 @@ -50,13 +50,23 @@ .Sh SYNOPSIS .In stdlib.h .Ft char * -.Fn getenv "const char *name" +.Fo getenv +.Fa "const char *name" +.Fc .Ft int -.Fn setenv "const char *name" "const char *value" "int overwrite" +.Fo putenv +.Fa "char *string" +.Fc .Ft int -.Fn putenv "const char *string" -.Ft void -.Fn unsetenv "const char *name" +.Fo setenv +.Fa "const char *name" +.Fa "const char *value" +.Fa "int overwrite" +.Fc +.Ft int +.Fo unsetenv +.Fa "const char *name" +.Fc .Sh DESCRIPTION These functions set, unset and fetch environment variables from the host @@ -70,15 +80,13 @@ may be appended and prepended, respectively, with an equal sign .Dq Li \&= . +The behavior is undefined when an equal sign appears at any other location in +.Fa name . .Pp The .Fn getenv function obtains the current value of the environment variable, .Fa name . -If the variable -.Fa name -is not in the current environment, -a null pointer is returned. .Pp The .Fn setenv @@ -108,27 +116,92 @@ equivalent to: setenv(name, value, 1); .Ed .Pp +The string pointed to by +.Fa string +becomes part of the environment. +A program should not alter or free the string, +and should not use stack or other transient string variables +as arguments to +.Fn putenv . +The +.Fn setenv +function is strongly preferred to +.Fn putenv . +.Pp The .Fn unsetenv function deletes all instances of the variable name pointed to by .Fa name from the list. +Note that only the variable name (e.g., "NAME") should be given; +"NAME=value" will not work. .Sh RETURN VALUES -.Rv -std setenv putenv +The +.Fn getenv +function returns the value of the environment variable as a +.Dv NUL Ns +-terminated string. +If the variable +.Fa name +is not in the current environment, +.Dv NULL +is returned. +.Pp +.Rv -std setenv putenv unsetenv .Sh ERRORS .Bl -tag -width Er +.It Bq Er EINVAL +The function +.Fn unsetenv +failed because +.Fa name +was not found in the environment list. .It Bq Er ENOMEM The function .Fn setenv or .Fn putenv -failed because they were unable to allocate memory for the environment. +failed because it was unable to allocate memory for the environment. .El +.Sh LEGACY SYNOPSIS +.Fd #include +.Pp +.Ft void +.br +.Fo unsetenv +.Fa "const char *name" +.Fc ; +.Pp +.Fn unsetenv +doesn't return a value. +.Sh COMPATIBILITY +.Fn putenv +no longer copies its input buffer. +This often appears in crash logs as a crash in +.Fn getenv . +Avoid passing local buffers or freeing the memory +that is passed to +.Fn putenv . +Use +.Fn setenv , +which still makes an internal copy of its buffers. +.Pp +.Fn unsetenv +no longer parses the variable name; +e.g., unsetenv ("FOO=BAR") no longer works. +Use unsetenv("FOO"). +.Fn unsetenv +also now returns a status value and will set +.Va errno +to EINVAL if +.Fa name +is not a defined environment variable. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr csh 1 , .Xr sh 1 , .Xr execve 2 , +.Xr compat 5 , .Xr environ 7 .Sh STANDARDS The @@ -144,13 +217,15 @@ assigning a differently sized .Fa value to the same .Fa name -will result in a memory leak. The +will result in a memory leak. +The .Fx semantics for these functions (namely, that the contents of .Fa value are copied and that old values remain accessible indefinitely) make this -bug unavoidable. Future versions may eliminate one or both of these +bug unavoidable. +Future versions may eliminate one or both of these semantic guarantees in order to fix the bug. .Sh HISTORY The functions