On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 01:10:26PM +0100, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:
> +int xsetenv(const char *name, const char *val, int overwrite)
> +{
> + if (setenv(name, val, overwrite))
> + die_errno("setenv failed");
> +}
It probably doesn't matter, because the error condition is almost
certainly just "oops, we ran out of memory". But you could also print
the name of the variable being set, which may give the user a clue to
some misconfiguration (e.g., trying to put some extremely long value
into the environment).
-Peff
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