From: Sam Habiel <sam.habiel@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Help with C clearenv and setenv
Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 08:58:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABHT9632LBGQZmRQjyifmd2vWLu24XCP8oJEaMYWu8qHsvpP+A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFWoy7FnGEJjEz+rTr=VNrmk3hqaJ0pQH7yB+iuJK25dwMrvdg@mail.gmail.com>
Thank you Keith for you reply; but I am actually looking for the C APIs to
manipulate the environment; esp. to clear it.
On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 6:05 PM, Keith Christian <keith1christian@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Sam,
>
> Here is a short demonstration of how to detect unset (possibly null,
> too?) variables in BASH. Not sure if this is exactly what you are
> looking for but presented for info.
>
> set -x;A_VAR="${RANDOM}";echo "1. ${A_VAR}";echo "2.
> ${A_VAR:?IS_NOT_SET}";unset A_VAR;set +x
> + set -x
> + A_VAR=28641
> + echo '1. 28641'
> 1. 28641
> + echo '2. 28641'
> 2. 28641
> + unset A_VAR
> -bash: A_VAR: IS_NOT_SET
>
>
> Documentation for is in the BASH texinfo docs, read it in a Cygwin
> terminal by typing "info bash" and go to this section:
>
>
> 3.5.3 Shell Parameter Expansion
> -------------------------------
> (( lines deleted )) (( lines deleted )) (( lines deleted ))
> '${PARAMETER:-WORD}'
> If PARAMETER is unset or null, the expansion of WORD is
> substituted. Otherwise, the value of PARAMETER is substituted.
>
> '${PARAMETER:=WORD}'
> If PARAMETER is unset or null, the expansion of WORD is assigned to
> PARAMETER. The value of PARAMETER is then substituted. Positional
> parameters and special parameters may not be assigned to in this
> way.
>
> '${PARAMETER:?WORD}'
> If PARAMETER is null or unset, the expansion of WORD (or a message
> to that effect if WORD is not present) is written to the standard
> error and the shell, if it is not interactive, exits. Otherwise,
> the value of PARAMETER is substituted.
>
> '${PARAMETER:+WORD}'
> If PARAMETER is null or unset, nothing is substituted, otherwise
> the expansion of WORD is substituted.
> (( lines deleted )) (( lines deleted )) (( lines deleted ))
>
> Keith
>
> On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 8:48 AM, Sam Habiel <sam.habiel@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have code for a database I am porting to Cygwin.
> >
> > Part of that code is a clearenv() then a couple of setenvs. There is
> > an ifdef for Cygwin, as it doesn't implement clearenv. It just sets
> > environ = NULL. Well--that really breaks setenv! It returns a "Bad
> > Poniter" error (-1).
> >
> > What is the correct way to clear environment variables in Cygwin?
> >
> > --Sam
> > (About me: http://smh101.com/)
> >
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-31 2:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-30 16:55 Sam Habiel
2018-05-31 3:56 ` Keith Christian
2018-05-31 8:58 ` Sam Habiel [this message]
2018-05-31 21:53 ` Keith Christian
2018-05-31 9:38 ` Marco Atzeri
2018-05-31 13:22 ` Eliot Moss
2018-05-31 17:57 ` Eric Blake
2018-06-04 19:39 ` Ken Brown
2018-06-04 20:22 ` Sam Habiel
2018-06-06 13:02 ` Sam Habiel
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