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- From: wd@pcsbst.pcs.com (wd)
- Subject: Re: putenv() is clobbering static data! NCR 3xxx NCR OS 2.0 (SVR4)
- Organization: PCS Computer Systeme GmbH
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 06:15:35 GMT
- Message-ID: <wd.724313735@tukan>
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- rick@rei.com (Richard J. Barton) writes:
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- >You may want to check the amount of combination argv, envp string space
- >that's being used. Then look at the kernel parameter ARG_MAX (usually
- >defaults to about 5K). If you're repetitively doing putenv() this may
- >be a problem. This is just a hunch...
-
- Not in any implementation of putenv() I can look at (and this in-
- cludes SVR4). If necessary putenv() realloc's what it needs.
-
- Wolfgang
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