Re: g_getenv() encoding on Windows

["J. Ali Harlow" <ali juiblex co uk>]

On 31/12/04 18:08:55, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> BTW, what do you think about the ExpandEnvironmentStrings() that
> g_getenv() does? Is it actually necessary or not? I don't remember
> the details of the case when I noticed environment variables with
> references to other environment variables in them. It was a long time
> ago, at work, on some NT 4 machines. It might well be that it was the
> result of some broken local installation scripts or something, and
> not anything common at all.
>
> On the other hand, removing it might break something for somebody who
> actually depends on this functionality.

I don't know. My hunch would be that g_getenv() shouldn't do the  
expansion if we were designing the API from scratch. It would be better  
if the registry was fixed or if glib provided a g_getenv_expanded() or  
something, but I don't think it's worth breaking the API over. If we  
ever come across a usage case for providing the unexpanded strings we  
can always consider adding a g_getenv_unexpanded() or something, but I  
can't really see where that could be useful.

Cheers,

Ali.