I have completed a new version[1] of a replacement (kern/99826[1]) for getenv/setenv/putenv/unsetenv(). A patch against CURRENT that updates libc and a few base utilities can be found here[2]. I built it and ran it successfully. Notes: 1. Fixes memory leak as noted in BUGS section for setenv(3). Example of the leak: setenv("TZ", "CDT", 1); setenv("TZ", "YEKST", 1); // Leaks setenv("TZ", "CDT", 1); setenv("TZ", "YEKST", 1); // Leaks 2. Converts all calls to POSIX from historic BSD API. a. unsetenv returns an int. b. putenv takes a char * instead of const char *. c. errno is set appropriately for POSIX. Exceptions involve bad environ variable and internal initialization code. These both set errno to EFAULT. 3. Several patches to base utilities to handle the POSIX changes are from Andrey Chernov's previous commit. A few I re-wrote to use setenv() instead of putenv(). Yes, I dislike putenv(). :) 4. A new regression module to test these functions was written. It also can be used to test the performance. I found performance to be on-par or better. It is found in tools/regression/environment. 5. Man page could use more work to match all the changes. Thank you to Andrey and others for your help in proofreading several iterations of the code. Sean 1. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/99826 2. http://www.farley.org/freebsd/tmp/setenv/setenv-9/ 3. http://www.farley.org/freebsd/tmp/setenv/setenv-9/setenv.diff -- sean-freebsd_at_farley.orgReceived on Tue May 29 2007 - 21:00:17 UTC
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