java.lang.System.getEnv()

Wed Mar 3 19:22:00 GMT 2004

Hi,
For my cgi-bin project I need to pick up the environment variables that Apache
provides.
I'm now either up to using one of the gazillion libraries, such as libgetenv-java,
that you find on the web, or else resort to reading /proc/self/environ, or otherwise
working my way around this problem.
Would you accept a patch to solve it?
 /**
 * This used to get an environment variable, but following Sun's lead,
 * it now throws an Error. Use <code>getProperty</code> instead.
 *
 * @param name the name of the environment variable
 * @return this does not return
 * @throws Error this is not supported
 * @deprecated use {@link #getProperty(String)}; getenv is not supported
 */
 public static String getenv(String name)
 {
 throw new Error("getenv no longer supported, use properties instead: "
 + name);
 }
By the way, since "Sun's lead" listens to no one else but themselves -- and even
then, not always -- and prefers to throw Error tantrums around, let's hope that
IBM will be able to talk some reason into them.
Greetings
Erik