[Info-Ingres] getenv, NMgtAtt and OME

[martin.bowes at ctsu.ox.ac.uk]

Hi Everyone,

I'm trying to make an OME function that will use a user environment 
variable - just like how normal (ie. sane) Ingres can look for user 
environment variables such as II_DATE_FORMAT etc...

I thought a simple setting of getenv() would do the trick. It doesn't work 
as expected. To be available to the the program, the environment 
variable must be set by the ingres session that started the installation - 
and only if the variable was set at the time the installation was started.

So I decide to check in the Opensource to see how Ingres does it. In 
there I stumbled across the NMgtAt() function. It seemed to do not 
much more than what I had tried to do with getenv(), but what the hell, I 
thought I'll give it a whirl. The OME functions compiled okay, linked 
okay and lo and behold acted in exactly the same manner as the 
getenv() version.

So does anyone have any idea why I cant get the damn thing to check 
the user environment space at run time - why is it always the ingres 
users space and from the environment that started the installation?

Martin Bowes