Question about os::getenv()

[Martin Buchholz]

Why doesn't hotspot use plain C getenv ?

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 12:14 PM, Jeremy Manson <jeremymanson at google.com>
wrote:

> Hey folks,
>
> We had a request internally to make it so that JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS could
> accept something longer than 1024 characters.  See:
>
> Arguments::parse_options_environment_variable(const char* name,
> SysClassPath* scp_p, bool* scp_assembly_required_p)
>
> in
>
>
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/hotspot/file/27f0413cbea3/src/share/vm/runtime/arguments.cpp
>
> Would you folks be amenable to a refactoring so that getenv returns a
> newly allocated array with the contents of the envvar, which the caller has
> to delete?
>
> Jeremy
>
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