Question about os::getenv()

[Jeremy Manson]

It doesn't work on Windows?

Jeremy

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 12:58 PM, Martin Buchholz <martinrb at google.com>
wrote:

> 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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