java.lang.System.getEnv()

[Erik Poupaert <erik dot poupaert at skynet dot be>]

Hi,

For my cgi-bin project I need to pick up the environment variables that Apache
provides.

I'm now either up to using one of the gazillion libraries, such as libgetenv-java,
that you find on the web, or else resort to reading /proc/self/environ, or otherwise
working my way around this problem.

Would you accept a patch to solve it?

  /**
   * This used to get an environment variable, but following Sun's lead,
   * it now throws an Error. Use <code>getProperty</code> instead.
   *
   * @param name the name of the environment variable
   * @return this does not return
   * @throws Error this is not supported
   * @deprecated use {@link #getProperty(String)}; getenv is not supported
   */
  public static String getenv(String name)
  {
    throw new Error("getenv no longer supported, use properties instead: "
                    + name);
  }

By the way, since "Sun's lead" listens to no one else but themselves -- and even
then, not always -- and prefers to throw Error tantrums around, let's hope that
IBM will be able to talk some reason into them.

Greetings
Erik