NAME

       curl_getenv - return value for environment name

SYNOPSIS

       #include <curl/curl.h>

       char *curl_getenv(const char *name);

DESCRIPTION

       curl_getenv() is a portable wrapper for the getenv() function, meant to emulate its behaviour and provide
       an identical interface for all operating systems libcurl builds on (including win32).

AVAILABILITY

       This  function  will  be  removed  from  the public libcurl API in a near future. It will instead be made
       "available" by source code access only, and then as curlx_getenv().

RETURN VALUE

       If successful, curl_getenv() returns a pointer to the value of the specified environment. The  memory  it
       refers  to  is  malloc()ed  so  the  application must free() this when the data is no longer needed. When
       curl_getenv(3) fails to find the specified name, it returns a null pointer.

NOTE

       Under unix operating systems, there isn't any point in returning  an  allocated  memory,  although  other
       systems  won't work properly if this isn't done. The unix implementation thus has to suffer slightly from
       the drawbacks of other systems.

SEE ALSO

       getenv(3C),

libcurl 7.12                                      30 April 2004                                   curl_getenv(3)