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| author | rsc <devnull@localhost> | 2005-01-03 06:40:20 +0000 |
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| committer | rsc <devnull@localhost> | 2005-01-03 06:40:20 +0000 |
| commit | 058b0118a52061ad57694c01fc8763b22b789c4d (patch) | |
| tree | 6685f04dea5ed68edaa34998c976aed34c55fe94 /man/man3/getenv.3 | |
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Some man pages.
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diff --git a/man/man3/getenv.3 b/man/man3/getenv.3 index 315407c6..4be92ece 100644 --- a/man/man3/getenv.3 +++ b/man/man3/getenv.3 @@ -15,10 +15,8 @@ int putenv(char *name, char *val) .fi .SH DESCRIPTION .I Getenv -reads the contents of -.BI /env/ name -(see -.IR env (3)) +fetches the environment value associated with +.I name into memory allocated with .IR malloc (3), 0-terminates it, @@ -27,18 +25,18 @@ If no file exists, 0 is returned. .PP .I Putenv -creates the file -.BI /env/ name -and writes the string -.I val -to it. The terminating -.B 0 -is not written. -If the file value cannot be written, \-1 is returned. +sets the environment value associated with +.I name +to +.IR val . .SH SOURCE -.B /usr/local/plan9/src/libc/9sys -.SH SEE ALSO -.IR env (3) +.B /usr/local/plan9/src/lib9/getenv.c .SH DIAGNOSTICS Sets .IR errstr . +.SH BUGS +Defined as macros for +.I p9getenv +and +.I p9putenv +to avoid name conflicts with Unix library calls. |