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- Tell the user to call curl_free() to free the pointer returned by curl_getenv(). Prior to this change the user was directed to call free(), but that would not work in cases where the library and application use separate C runtimes and therefore have separate heap memory management. Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/5016
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50 lines
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.TH curl_getenv 3 "30 April 2004" "libcurl 7.12" "libcurl Manual"
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.SH NAME
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curl_getenv - return value for environment name
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B #include <curl/curl.h>
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.sp
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.BI "char *curl_getenv(const char *" name ");"
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.ad
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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curl_getenv() is a portable wrapper for the getenv() function, meant to
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emulate its behaviour and provide an identical interface for all operating
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systems libcurl builds on (including win32).
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You must \fIcurl_free(3)\fP the returned string when you're done with it.
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.SH AVAILABILITY
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This function will be removed from the public libcurl API in a near future. It
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will instead be made "available" by source code access only, and then as
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curlx_getenv().
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.SH RETURN VALUE
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A pointer to a zero terminated string or NULL if it failed to find the
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specified name.
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.SH NOTE
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Under unix operating systems, there isn't any point in returning an allocated
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memory, although other systems won't work properly if this isn't done. The
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unix implementation thus has to suffer slightly from the drawbacks of other
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systems.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR getenv "(3C), "
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