ENVIRON(3P)

🌸 ENVIRON(3P) — POSIX Programmer's Manual 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to the environ page 💖 this one lives in the POSIX Programmer's Manual, and it's short but iconic. let's get into it.

✨ PROLOG ✨

so this manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual, periodt. but heads up 🫶 the Linux implementation of this interface may differ — so if you're on Linux, go consult the corresponding Linux manual page for the deets on how Linux actually behaves. or, plot twist, the interface might not even be implemented on Linux at all 💀. vibe check accordingly.

🎀 NAME 🎀

environ — array of character pointers to the environment strings ✨

like, it's literally a pointer array, one pointer per env string, no cap.

💅 SYNOPSIS 💅

extern char **environ;

that's it. that's the whole thing. she's minimal, she's mysterious, she's serving 🍓

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

bestie, this page is a little shy — it just points you elsewhere. refer to exec and the Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, Chapter 8, Environment Variables. that's where the actual lore lives 👑

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

okay so legal girlie time, but we keep it cute and we keep it exact 💜:

Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .

fr fr, if something looks off, it's almost definitely a conversion oopsie, not the actual standard misbehaving 🙈

and that's the whole page, bestie 🌈 thanks for reading, you ate. this one's from IEEE/The Open Group, dated 2017 — mwah 💋 🎀✨