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.\" Copyright 2002 walter harms (walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de)
.\"
.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-1.0-or-later
.\"
.\" based on the description in glibc source and infopages
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.\" Corrections and additions, aeb
.TH envz_add 3 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"
.SH NAME
envz_add, envz_entry, envz_get, envz_merge,
envz_remove, envz_strip \- environment string support
.SH LIBRARY
Standard C library
.RI ( libc ", " \-lc )
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <envz.h>
.P
.BI "error_t envz_add(char **restrict " envz ", size_t *restrict " envz_len ,
.BI " const char *restrict " name \
", const char *restrict " value );
.P
.BI "char *envz_entry(const char *restrict " envz ", size_t " envz_len ,
.BI " const char *restrict " name );
.P
.BI "char *envz_get(const char *restrict " envz ", size_t " envz_len ,
.BI " const char *restrict " name );
.P
.BI "error_t envz_merge(char **restrict " envz ", size_t *restrict " envz_len ,
.BI " const char *restrict " envz2 ", size_t " envz2_len ,
.BI " int " override );
.P
.BI "void envz_remove(char **restrict " envz ", size_t *restrict " envz_len ,
.BI " const char *restrict " name );
.P
.BI "void envz_strip(char **restrict " envz ", size_t *restrict " envz_len );
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
These functions are glibc-specific.
.P
An argz vector is a pointer to a character buffer together with a length,
see
.BR argz_add (3).
An envz vector is a special argz vector, namely one where the strings
have the form "name=value".
Everything after the first \[aq]=\[aq] is considered
to be the value.
If there is no \[aq]=\[aq], the value is taken to be NULL.
(While the value in case of a trailing \[aq]=\[aq] is the empty string "".)
.P
These functions are for handling envz vectors.
.P
.BR envz_add ()
adds the string
.RI \&" name = value \&"
(in case
.I value
is non-NULL) or
.RI \&" name \&"
(in case
.I value
is NULL) to the envz vector
.RI ( *envz ,\ *envz_len )
and updates
.I *envz
and
.IR *envz_len .
If an entry with the same
.I name
existed, it is removed.
.P
.BR envz_entry ()
looks for
.I name
in the envz vector
.RI ( envz ,\ envz_len )
and returns the entry if found, or NULL if not.
.P
.BR envz_get ()
looks for
.I name
in the envz vector
.RI ( envz ,\ envz_len )
and returns the value if found, or NULL if not.
(Note that the value can also be NULL, namely when there is
an entry for
.I name
without \[aq]=\[aq] sign.)
.P
.BR envz_merge ()
adds each entry in
.I envz2
to
.IR *envz ,
as if with
.BR envz_add ().
If
.I override
is true, then values in
.I envz2
will supersede those with the same name in
.IR *envz ,
otherwise not.
.P
.BR envz_remove ()
removes the entry for
.I name
from
.RI ( *envz ,\ *envz_len )
if there was one.
.P
.BR envz_strip ()
removes all entries with value NULL.
.SH RETURN VALUE
All envz functions that do memory allocation have a return type of
.I error_t
(an integer type),
and return 0 for success, and
.B ENOMEM
if an allocation error occurs.
.SH ATTRIBUTES
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
.BR attributes (7).
.TS
allbox;
lbx lb lb
l l l.
Interface Attribute Value
T{
.na
.nh
.BR envz_add (),
.BR envz_entry (),
.BR envz_get (),
.BR envz_merge (),
.BR envz_remove (),
.BR envz_strip ()
T} Thread safety MT-Safe
.TE
.SH STANDARDS
GNU.
.SH EXAMPLES
.\" SRC BEGIN (envz_add.c)
.EX
#include <envz.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
\&
int
main(int argc, char *argv[], char *envp[])
{
char *str;
size_t e_len = 0;
\&
for (size_t i = 0; envp[i] != NULL; i++)
e_len += strlen(envp[i]) + 1;
\&
str = envz_entry(*envp, e_len, "HOME");
printf("%s\en", str);
str = envz_get(*envp, e_len, "HOME");
printf("%s\en", str);
exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}
.EE
.\" SRC END
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR argz_add (3)
