/********************************************************************\ * File: setenv.c * Renamed from: core-utils.c * * Copyright (C) 2001 Linux Developers Group * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the * License, or (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU * General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software * Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. * \********************************************************************/ #include #include #include #include #include #include "setenv.h" /* This setenv() papers over the brokenness of of systems that only * have putenv() which takes ownership of the pointer you give it, * making it *very* difficult, if not impossible to avoid memory * leaks. Note that right now, on systems that have setenv, this is * just setenv, and on other systems, we just leave the memory leak. * Later, we may try to make things a little better by keeping track * of the pointers we call putenv on in a hash table and if someone * calls gnc_setenv on an envt var that we've previously set, then * we'll free it after the change. However, given the sloppy * semantics (or docs) for putenv, it's not even clear that this is * OK, since it's not clear that people aren't allowed to keep the * pointer from getenv around, as long as they don't try to modify * it... */ #ifndef HAVE_SETENV int setenv(const char *name, const char *value, int overwrite) { const char *old_value = getenv(name); int result = 0; if ((name == NULL) || (value == NULL)) return -1; if (overwrite || (!old_value)) { char *new_value = g_strdup_printf("%s=%s", name, value); if (putenv(new_value) != 0) result = -1; if (old_value) { /* for now, do nothing, but it would be nice if we could figure out a safe way to reclaim any memory that *we* allocated, taking in to account whether or not other code (in other system libs) is allowed to have cached a pointer into the value via getenv -- is that kosher? Also we have to *know* that we allocated the memory. */ } } return result; } int unsetenv(const char *name) { int result = 0; char *putenv_str; if (name == NULL) return -1; if (strchr(name, '=') != NULL) return -1; if (*name == '\0') return -1; putenv_str = g_strdup_printf("%s=", name); if (!putenv_str) return -1; result = putenv(putenv_str); g_free(putenv_str); return result; } #endif