java.lang.System.getEnv()

Wed Mar 3 19:31:00 GMT 2004

Erik Poupaert wrote:
>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
>No, they are just slow to listen.
JDK 1.5 reintroduce that function, and there is even a variant that return
all the environment in one call.
Cedric
> -- 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
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