[Info-Ingres] getenv, NMgtAtt and OME

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

Hi Grant

Thanks for the info.

Its a bit of a shame, I'm trying to implement some debugging features 
that I can just toggle with an environment variable.

I'm getting the feeling that I'm about the only regular contributor to the 
newsgroup that uses OME. Is there anyone else out there?

Marty 

> Hi Martin,
> 
> It's all about context - your OME function is being called from the
> server and will only see what the server can see or saw when it
> started up. The front-end terminal applications like tm, abf etc. also
> make calls to NMgtAt to determine II_DATE_FORMAT etc. The values
> fetched in those applications return the environment values of the
> context of the user process at the time the process was started, be
> they defined in the shell or in symbol.tbl.
> 
> To do what you want would require changes to a lot more than just OME.
> 
> regards
> 
> grant
> 
> On 08/05/07 11:08, martin.bowes at ctsu.ox.ac.uk scribbled:
> > 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
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> 
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