Function

GLibget_environ

since: 2.28

Declaration

gchar**
g_get_environ (
  void
)

Description

Gets the list of environment variables for the current process.

The list is NULL terminated and each item in the list is of the form ‘NAME=VALUE’.

This is equivalent to direct access to the ‘environ’ global variable, except portable.

The return value is freshly allocated and it should be freed with g_strfreev() when it is no longer needed.

Available since: 2.28

Return value

Type: An array of filename

the list of environment variables.
The array is NULL-terminated.
The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.
Each element is a file system path, using the OS encoding.