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How to ignore the unix environment?

Started by November 28, 2004 06:35 PM
1 comment, last by C-Junkie 20 years ago
I am in a systems programming class (Unix), and have a project where I am to emulate 'env', called 'myenv'. I can't for the life of me find anything about how to ignore the environment via the '-' and '-i' options that 'env' uses. Also, I seem to be having trouble using execvp, nothing happens when the program hits that particular line of code:
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>


static char * id = "@(#)myenv.c - Alex Swinney";

static void ignoreEnv();	/*use case 'i' &&/|| case '-'*/
static void processArgs(char ** args,int argc);   /*use the environment*/
static void printEnv();
static void removeArgs(int ind, int argc, char ** argv);

static char * fileName;
static char * arguments[50];
static status;
extern char ** environ;

int main(int argc, char ** argv)
{
	int ign = 0,c;
	status = 0;

	fileName = argv[0]; 
	while ((c = getopt(argc, argv, "i")) != EOF)
	{
		if(c=='i')
		{
			ignoreEnv();
			ign = 1;
			break;
		}
		if(c=='?')
		{
			char usage[100]="";
			sprintf(usage,"USAGE: %s [ -i | - ] [ name=value ... ] [ utility [ arg ... ] ]\n",fileName);
			status = write(STDOUT_FILENO,usage,100);
			exit(1);
		}
	}

	if(!ign && argc > optind)
		if(strcmp(argv[optind],"-")==0)
		{
			ign = 1;
			ignoreEnv();
		}


	processArgs(argv,argc);

	printEnv();

	exit(status);
}

void processArgs(char ** args,int argc)
{
	int ind = optind;
	int error;

	while(ind<argc)
	{
		if(!strchr(args[ind],'='))
		{
			break;
		}
		else
		{
			error = putenv(args[ind]);
			if(error)
			{
				char buf[50];
				sprintf(buf,"%s:%s",fileName,args[ind]);
				perror(buf);
			}
			ind++;
		}
	}

	if(ind<argc)/*now, check if there are any additional arguments, if so, it has to be an executable*/
	{
		int err=0;
		/*first, remove all previous arguments*/
		removeArgs(ind+1, argc,args);
		/*next, execute the executable*/
		/*printf("before execvp arg = %s\n",args[ind]);*/

		while(arguments[err])
		{
			printf("%s\n",arguments[err]);
			err++;
		}

		err = execvp(args[ind],arguments);
		if(err<0)
		{
			char errorb[100];
			sprintf(errorb,"%s:%s",fileName,args[ind]);
			perror(errorb);
		}		
	}
}
/* HERE IS WHERE I *ATTEMPT* TO IGNORE THE ENVIRONMENT*/
void ignoreEnv()
{
	int e=0;
	while((environ[e]))
	{
		environ[e]="";
		e++;
	}
}

void removeArgs(int ind, int argc, char ** argv)
{
	int d=0;
    for(d=0;ind<argc;d++,ind++)
	{
		arguments[ind] = argv[ind];
		printf("%s\n",arguments[ind]);	
	}
}

void printEnv()
{
	int e=0;
	while(environ[e])
	{
		printf("%s\n",environ[e]);
		e++;
	}
}



This is being developed on SunOS 5.8, if that helps. If anyone sees anything wrong with the above code, don't hesitate to let me know about it! Thanks
I WISH SOMEONE WOULD FIX THE DAMNED LOGIN!
Ok, made a work-around. If someone knows a better way let me know.

I basically created a second char ** that is initialized with the variables and then printed that out, after clearing environ via the way shown in the post above.

Now, my execvp function isn't wanting to work.
I WISH SOMEONE WOULD FIX THE DAMNED LOGIN!
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Take a look at execve, it might do what you want...

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