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/****************************************************************/
/* */
/* putenv(3) */
/* */
/* Change or add an environment entry */
/* */
/****************************************************************/
/* origination 1987-Oct-7 T. Holm */
/****************************************************************/
/*
From pacbell!ames!ll-xn!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!uvicctr!tholm Wed May 4 23:40:52 1988
Path: hoptoad!pacbell!ames!ll-xn!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!uvicctr!tholm
From: tholm@uvicctr.UUCP (Terrence W. Holm)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: putenv(3)
Message-ID: <395@uvicctr.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 88 06:40:52 GMT
Reply-To: tholm@uvicctr.UUCP (Terrence W. Holm)
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria B.C. Canada
Lines: 296
EFTH Minix report #2 - May 1988 - putenv(3)
This is an implementation of putenv(3) that we
wrote for Minix. Please consider this a public
domain program.
*/
#include <stdio.h>
#define PSIZE sizeof(char *)
extern char **environ;
char *index();
char *malloc();
/****************************************************************/
/* */
/* putenv( entry ) */
/* */
/* The "entry" should follow the form */
/* "NAME=VALUE". This routine will search the */
/* user environment for "NAME" and replace its */
/* value with "VALUE". */
/* */
/* Note that "entry" is not copied, it is used */
/* as the environment entry. This means that it */
/* must not be unallocated or otherwise modifed */
/* by the caller, unless it is replaced by a */
/* subsequent putenv(). */
/* */
/* If the name is not found in the environment, */
/* then a new vector of pointers is allocated, */
/* "entry" is put at the end and the global */
/* variable "environ" is updated. */
/* */
/* This function normally returns NULL, but -1 */
/* is returned if it can not allocate enough */
/* space using malloc(3), or "entry" does not */
/* contain a '='. */
/* */
/****************************************************************/
putenv( entry )
char *entry;
{
unsigned length;
unsigned size;
char **p;
char **new_environ;
/* Find the length of the "NAME=" */
if ( (length=(unsigned) index(entry,'=')) == NULL )
return( -1 );
length = length - (unsigned) entry + 1;
/* Scan through the environment looking for "NAME=" */
for ( p=environ; *p != 0 ; p++ )
if ( strncmp( entry, *p, length ) == 0 )
{
*p = entry;
return( NULL );
}
/* The name was not found, build a bigger environment */
size = p - environ;
new_environ = (char **) malloc( (size+2)*PSIZE );
if ( new_environ == NULL )
return( -1 );
bcopy( (char *) environ, (char *) new_environ, size*PSIZE );
new_environ[size] = entry;
new_environ[size+1] = NULL;
environ = new_environ;
return(NULL);
}