Re: how to get putenv from glibc compiled?

On 10/08/2011 12:29 PM, Stuart Hughes wrote:
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> Hi Jürgen,
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> I'm not sure I understand this question?
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> putenv is supported by glibc, you'd need to call this library functions
> from a C program.
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Indeed. My C program is the busybox dhcpc (dhcp client).
It puts amongst others the NTP server IP adress in an environment 
variable with 'putenv'.
I first thought it failed because this library function is not present 
as program in linux - I was wrong.

The reason it does not work is explained here: 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6981033/why-setenv-does-not-work. (In 
short: "Your program is started */by*/ the shell, so the shell got to 
set its copy of the environment variables, but there is no way for it to 
push a change back to the shell")

Solution: start the ntp client in the same shell as the dhcp client runs 
in. This is made possible in busybox dhcpc by specifying a script in the 
menu config of busybox. In that script, you need to add a line to start 
the ntp client.
(See busybox mailing list)
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> If you want to set en environment variable you should be able to do this
> from the she with