Re: lynx-dev Re: putenv

[Mike Castle]

Amazingly enough Kim DeVaughn said:
> 
> FWIW, on FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE (whose man page is below), I get:
> 
>   bar
>   Bus error (core dumped)
> 
> ie, a sig-10.
> 
> Note that the man page has no special warnings WRT the manner in which
> the string was allocated, etc.


Is gcc the default compiler for FreeBSD?  If so, recompile with
-fwritable-strings.  By default "foo=bar" is put into a read only section
of the file, so when the program tries to write to the string with
foo[6]='z', it gets pissy.

Or change the program to read foo=strdup("foo=bar"); to get a writable
version.

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