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Re: exp/1145: GETENV and lower case env variables access failure under gdb, but ok without


The following reply was made to PR exp/1145; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
To: gbourgeois at yaccom dot com
Cc: gdb-gnats at sources dot redhat dot com
Subject: Re: exp/1145: GETENV and lower case env variables  access failure under gdb, but ok without
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 12:04:25 -0500

 On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 08:54:11AM -0000, gbourgeois at yaccom dot com wrote:
 > 
 > >Number:         1145
 > >Category:       exp
 > >Synopsis:       GETENV and lower case env variables  access failure under gdb, but ok without
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       non-critical
 > >Priority:       medium
 > >Responsible:    unassigned
 > >State:          open
 > >Class:          sw-bug
 > >Submitter-Id:   net
 > >Arrival-Date:   Tue Mar 18 08:58:00 UTC 2003
 > >Closed-Date:
 > >Last-Modified:
 > >Originator:     gbourgeois at yaccom dot com
 > >Release:        unknown-1.0
 > >Organization:
 > >Environment:
 > Cygwin1.20.13 , GNU gdb 5.0 (20010428-3)
 > >Description:
 > As a program ran without gdb may access to different kind of
 > env variables with getenv("UPPER_CASE_VARIABLE") and
 > getenv ("lower_case_variable"); if the same program is being debugged with gdb, lowercase access fails since
 > gdb creates its won shel and make ALL the variables UPPERCASE ?
 
 This sounds like a problem with your shell if it's converting the names
 of environment variables.  GDB just uses the shell normally.
 
 [Though perhaps it's time to stop.]
 
 -- 
 Daniel Jacobowitz
 MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer


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