Nagios Support Forum

Ethan Galstad wrote:
> Mark Anderson submitted (un)setenv replacement code recently, but I
> think it would be better to use the native (un)setenv() calls when
> available and back off to putenv() when needed. I'll make a CVS
> commit shortly with this. The putenv() call will leak memory, but
> only in child processes, and that should get cleaned up by the OS
> when they exit.
>

Even if ...

for(i=0; environ; i++) free(environ);
environ = NULL;

... ? It should be safe to free all of it and null it out at the end of
execution, since symbols are already resolved.

I haven't researched or tested, but perhaps extern char **environ; isn't
available on all too many systems.

> On 13 Jan 2005 at 11:07, local.coder wrote:
>
>
>>Ethan,
>>
>>Been a while but I was upgrading a system and ran into an issue on
>>2.0b1 on Solaris. Basically Solaris does not have setenv and unsetenv
>>it has putenv but the arguments are different. This is only called
>>once in utils.c so I wanted to find out from you how critical these
>>are as to whether putenv can be tweaked for use or if the two calls
>>can be ifdef'd to not be used on solaris.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Derrick
>
>
>
> Ethan Galstad,
> Nagios Developer
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