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| From | Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> |
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| Subject | Re: main() |
| Date | Sat, 15 Apr 2017 15:31:03 -0700 |
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Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> writes:
[...]
> Exactly.
> envp is one of those things which probably should be in the standard but
> isn't, as many programs need the environment variables.
POSIX has `extern char **environ;`. And of course standard C has
getenv(), which isn't as flexible (you can only get the value of an
environment variable if you already know its name, but that's usually
enough).
> Having said that, setting environment variables is a horrid thing to
> require of a user.
Balderdash. (And in may cases, environment variables are set by the
environment, not explicitly by the user.)
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Re: main() gordonb.y2etp@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) - 2017-04-16 00:19 -0500
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