From kde-core-devel  Thu Apr 13 01:38:43 2000
From: Waldo Bastian <bastian () suse ! de>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 01:38:43 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Checking for getenv("SESSION_MANAGER") (Was: Bug#3008: dcopserver does not compile under Solaris)
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=95558992319053

On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > Hm. almost.
> >
> > putenv("SESSION_MANAGER=") clears the env variable but it doesn't
> > undefine it. So getenv("SESSION_MANAGER") still returns a non-null
> > pointer. Now dcopserver gives a Qt generated "Session management error".
>
> Hmm ;(
> looking at the unsetenv implementation I'm afraid it's not portable at
> all.
> Our fake sets it to null, so could you please check not for non-null
> pointer, but for non-null value?

The check for SESSION_MANAGER is in qapplication_x11.cpp. The trolls need to 
change that. (CC'ed to qt-bugs@troll.no)

> The unsetenv function of glibc removes the string from the environment
> field.

Cheers,
Waldo