/* * Replacement for a missing setenv. * * Provides the same functionality as the standard library routine setenv for * those platforms that don't have it. * * The canonical version of this file is maintained in the rra-c-util package, * which can be found at . * * Written by Russ Allbery * * The authors hereby relinquish any claim to any copyright that they may have * in this work, whether granted under contract or by operation of law or * international treaty, and hereby commit to the public, at large, that they * shall not, at any time in the future, seek to enforce any copyright in this * work against any person or entity, or prevent any person or entity from * copying, publishing, distributing or creating derivative works of this * work. */ #include #include /* * If we're running the test suite, rename setenv to avoid conflicts with * the system version. */ #if TESTING # define setenv test_setenv int test_setenv(const char *, const char *, int); #endif int setenv(const char *name, const char *value, int overwrite) { char *envstring; size_t size; if (!overwrite && getenv(name) != NULL) return 0; /* * Allocate memory for the environment string. We intentionally don't use * the xmalloc family of allocation routines here, since the intention is * to provide a replacement for the standard library function that sets * errno and returns in the event of a memory allocation failure. */ size = strlen(name) + 1 + strlen(value) + 1; envstring = malloc(size); 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. */ strlcpy(envstring, name, size); strlcat(envstring, "=", size); strlcat(envstring, value, size); 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). */ }