[Gllug] endian.h

[rich at annexia.org]

On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 02:02:18PM +0000, chris.wareham at btopenworld.com wrote:
> Perhaps it's because OpenBSD and Solaris conform to standards, while
> Linux and glibc have god knows how many dubious extensions. setenv is
> often a wrapper around getenv and putenv anyway, so you're not even
> guaranteed the atomicity of setenv when you don't want to overwrite an
> existing variable in a threaded application.

One man's dubious extension is another man's useful feature I s'pose.

Actually putenv is an example of a really evil API, an invitation
for memory corruption bugs, because it's very hard to tell the lifetime
of the string that you pass as a parameter (in real, large programs
anyway).

Rich.

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