Re: HEADS UP: getenv() and family API change

On 2007-Jul-10 19:41:48 +0400, Andrey Chernov <ache_at_nagual.pp.ru> wrote:
>To say strictly, copying somewhere is not neccessary since this way works 
>too:
>
>static char *s = "PATH=/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[] = "PATH=/bin";

putenv(s);

-- 
Peter Jeremy