HEADS UP: getenv() and family API change

[Dirk Meyer]

Hallo Sean C. Farley,

> Changes in moving to POSIX from historic BSD API:
>    b. putenv takes a char * instead of const char *.
>    c. putenv no longer makes a copy of the input string.

Can you give more details?

An application will break in using this:
putenv("PATH=/bin")

now taking a char *, this will break with gcc42.

kind regards Dirk

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