Re: [hypermail] HM_DISCARD_DUP_MSGIDS

Dear Scott,

Thanks, that really did it. As you suggested, I switched to a dynamically generated configuration file, and it works ok with integer valued configuration variables.

Best,

Zvi.

On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Scott Rose wrote:

> As far as I can see, this is broken and has been broken since at least
> late betas of 2.0. The environment variables are read in a function
> called setup.c:PreConfig(). That function doesn't handle integers in
> environment variables properly- setting any value in the envar will
> cause the address of the string to be stored instead of the value of the
> integer being scanned out of the string:
>
> defval = getenv(name);
> ...
> switch (cfg[i].flags) {
> ...
> case CFG_INTEGER:
> *(int *)cfg[i].value = (int)defval;
> break;
>
> Seems like a sscanf() is indicated here. I think your choices are to
> hack the code or, more simply, to use a config file.
>
>
>

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