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--- Libc/Libc-498/stdlib/getenv.3
+++ Libc/Libc-262/stdlib/getenv.3
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" @(#)getenv.3 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/11/93
-.\" $FreeBSD: src/lib/libc/stdlib/getenv.3,v 1.16 2004/07/07 19:57:13 ru Exp $
+.\" $FreeBSD: src/lib/libc/stdlib/getenv.3,v 1.12 2001/09/07 14:46:35 asmodai Exp $
.\"
.Dd December 11, 1993
.Dt GETENV 3
@@ -50,32 +50,22 @@
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In stdlib.h
.Ft char *
-.Fo getenv
-.Fa "const char *name"
-.Fc
+.Fn getenv "const char *name"
.Ft int
-.Fo putenv
-.Fa "char *string"
-.Fc
+.Fn setenv "const char *name" "const char *value" "int overwrite"
.Ft int
-.Fo setenv
-.Fa "const char *name"
-.Fa "const char *value"
-.Fa "int overwrite"
-.Fc
-.Ft int
-.Fo unsetenv
-.Fa "const char *name"
-.Fc
+.Fn putenv "const char *string"
+.Ft void
+.Fn unsetenv "const char *name"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
These functions set, unset and fetch environment variables from the
host
.Em environment list .
For compatibility with differing environment conventions,
the given arguments
-.Fa name
+.Ar name
and
-.Fa value
+.Ar value
may be appended and prepended,
respectively,
with an equal sign
@@ -84,27 +74,30 @@
The
.Fn getenv
function obtains the current value of the environment variable,
-.Fa name .
+.Ar name .
+If the variable
+.Ar name
+is not in the current environment,
+a null pointer is returned.
.Pp
The
.Fn setenv
function inserts or resets the environment variable
-.Fa name
+.Ar name
in the current environment list.
If the variable
-.Fa name
+.Ar name
does not exist in the list,
it is inserted with the given
-.Fa value .
+.Ar value .
If the variable does exist, the argument
-.Fa overwrite
+.Ar overwrite
is tested; if
-.Fa overwrite
-is
+.Ar overwrite is
zero, the
variable is not reset, otherwise it is reset
to the given
-.Fa value .
+.Ar value .
.Pp
The
.Fn putenv
@@ -114,92 +107,27 @@
setenv(name, value, 1);
.Ed
.Pp
-The string pointed to by
-.Fa string
-becomes part of the environment.
-A program should not alter or free the string,
-and should not use stack or other transient string variables
-as arguments to
-.Fn putenv .
-The
-.Fn setenv
-function is strongly preferred to
-.Fn putenv .
-.Pp
The
.Fn unsetenv
function
deletes all instances of the variable name pointed to by
.Fa name
from the list.
-Note that only the variable name (e.g., "NAME") should be given;
-"NAME=value" will not work.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
-The
-.Fn getenv
-function returns the value of the environment variable as a
-.Dv NUL Ns
--terminated string.
-If the variable
-.Fa name
-is not in the current environment,
-.Dv NULL
-is returned.
-.Pp
-.Rv -std setenv putenv unsetenv
+.Rv -std setenv putenv
.Sh ERRORS
.Bl -tag -width Er
-.It Bq Er EINVAL
-The function
-.Fn unsetenv
-failed because
-.Fa name
-was not found in the environment list.
.It Bq Er ENOMEM
The function
.Fn setenv
or
.Fn putenv
-failed because it was unable to allocate memory for the environment.
+failed because they were unable to allocate memory for the environment.
.El
-.Sh LEGACY SYNOPSIS
-.Fd #include <stdlib.h>
-.Pp
-.Ft void
-.br
-.Fo unsetenv
-.Fa "const char *name"
-.Fc ;
-.Pp
-.Fn unsetenv
-doesn't return a value.
-.Sh COMPATIBILITY
-.Fn putenv
-no longer copies its input buffer.
-This often appears in crash logs as a crash in
-.Fn getenv .
-Avoid passing local buffers or freeing the memory
-that is passed to
-.Fn putenv .
-Use
-.Fn setenv ,
-which still makes an internal copy of its buffers.
-.Pp
-.Fn unsetenv
-no longer parses the variable name;
-e.g., unsetenv ("FOO=BAR") no longer works.
-Use unsetenv("FOO").
-.Fn unsetenv
-also now returns a status value and will set
-.Va errno
-to EINVAL if
-.Fa name
-is not a defined environment variable.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr csh 1 ,
.Xr sh 1 ,
.Xr execve 2 ,
-.Xr compat 5 ,
.Xr environ 7
.Sh STANDARDS
The
@@ -212,18 +140,16 @@
or
.Fn putenv
assigning a differently sized
-.Fa value
+.Ar value
to the same
-.Fa name
-will result in a memory leak.
-The
+.Ar name
+will result in a memory leak. The
.Fx
semantics for these functions
(namely, that the contents of
-.Fa value
+.Ar value
are copied and that old values remain accessible indefinitely) make this
-bug unavoidable.
-Future versions may eliminate one or both of these
+bug unavoidable. Future versions may eliminate one or both of these
semantic guarantees in order to fix the bug.
.Sh HISTORY
The functions