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| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/cygwin/environ.cc | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/environ.cc b/winsup/cygwin/environ.cc index 43225341c..b452d21a5 100644 --- a/winsup/cygwin/environ.cc +++ b/winsup/cygwin/environ.cc @@ -545,6 +545,7 @@ _getenv_r (struct _reent *, const char *name) return findenv_func (name, &offset); } +/* Return size of environment block, including terminating NULL. */ static int __stdcall envsize (const char * const *in_envp) { @@ -582,11 +583,16 @@ _addenv (const char *name, const char *value, int overwrite) else { /* Create new slot. */ int sz = envsize (cur_environ ()); + + /* Allocate space for two new slots even though only one is needed. + According to the commit message for commit ebd645e + (2001-10-03), this is done to "work around problems with some + buggy applications." */ int allocsz = sz + (2 * sizeof (char *)); offset = (sz - 1) / sizeof (char *); - /* Allocate space for additional element plus terminating NULL. */ + /* Allocate space for additional element. */ if (cur_environ () == lastenviron) lastenviron = __cygwin_environ = (char **) realloc (cur_environ (), allocsz); |