Re: Getting access to environement variables

[vincent Dupaquis <v.dupaquis@trusted-objects.com>]

I did not knew this one :)

Even better, looks like we are reaching a point where no one will be
able to complain about a missing tiny function ;)

Vincent.


Le 05/02/2021 à 15:34, Jan Vrany a écrit :
> On Fri, 2021-02-05 at 15:28 +0100, vincent Dupaquis wrote:
>> Good point !
>>
>> That's something I already use when instrumenting gdb, but for some
>> easy
>> and quick scripting, it would have been easier to be able to access
>> the
>> environement variables directly from the gdb commands.
> I have not tried, but I believe you can implement new convenience
> function in Python that would allow you to write something like
>
>    $ENV("MY_ENV_VARIABLE") 
>
> See
> https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Functions-In-Python.html#Functions-In-Python
>
> HTH, Jan
>
>> Vincent.
>>
>> Le 05/02/2021 à 15:06, Paul Koning a écrit :
>>>> On Feb 5, 2021, at 4:58 AM, vincent Dupaquis <
>>>> v.dupaquis@trusted-objects.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     Hello,
>>>>
>>>>     I would like to point-out a possibly missing feature, which
>>>> is the
>>>> possibility of accessing ENV variables in GDB commands.
>>> Assuming your GDB is built with Python scripting included, you can
>>> do it via Python; "import os" then access environment variables as
>>> elements of dictionary "os.environ".
>>>
>>>         paul
>>>
>
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