/* Replacement for a missing setenv. ** ** Written by Russ Allbery ** This work is hereby placed in the public domain by its author. ** ** Provides the same functionality as the standard library routine setenv ** for those platforms that don't have it. */ #include "config.h" #include #include int setenv(const char *name, const char *value, int overwrite) { char *envstring; if (!overwrite && getenv(name) != NULL) return 0; /* Allocate memory for the environment string. We intentionally don't use concat here, or the xmalloc family of allocation routines, since the intention is to provide a replacement for the standard library function which sets errno and returns in the event of a memory allocation failure. */ envstring = malloc(strlen(name) + 1 + strlen(value) + 1); /* __MEM_CHECKED__ */ if (envstring == NULL) return -1; /* Build the environment string and add it to the environment using putenv. Systems without putenv lose, but XPG4 requires it. */ strcpy(envstring, name); /* __STRCPY_CHECKED__ */ strcat(envstring, "="); /* __STRCAT_CHECKED__ */ strcat(envstring, value); /* __STRCAT_CHECKED__ */ return putenv(envstring); /* Note that the memory allocated is not freed. This is intentional; many implementations of putenv assume that the string passed to putenv will never be freed and don't make a copy of it. Repeated use of this function will therefore leak memory, since most implementations of putenv also don't free strings removed from the environment (due to being overwritten). */ }