Problem with getenv("HOME")

[Sergey Okhapkin]

Wolfgang Stuerzlinger wrote:
> By default the environment variable HOME is not set in the GNU-Win32
> environment.
> When getenv is called with ("HOME") as argument the return value is a
> string "(null)" instead of a NULL pointer. Is this a "standard" behaviour 
> or a bug?
>
> Wolfgang Stuerzlinger
>
> P.S.: This breaks commonly used code sequences like:
> 	sprintf(newName,"%s/%s",getenv("HOME"),fileName);

It's a bug in your example. getenv() returns NULL pointer, but sprintf 
formats it as a "(null)" string. You have to check getenv's return value 
before passing it somwhere.

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