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+# This file is part of NIT ( http://www.nitlanguage.org ).
+#
+# Copyright 2006 Floréal Morandat <morandat@lirmm.fr>
+# Copyright 2008 Jean Privat <jean@pryen.org>
+#
+# This file is free software, which comes along with NIT. This software is
+# distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY;
+# without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
+# PARTICULAR PURPOSE. You can modify it is you want, provided this header
+# is kept unaltered, and a notification of the changes is added.
+# You are allowed to redistribute it and sell it, alone or is a part of
+# another product.
+
+# Access to the environment variables of the process
+module environ
+
+import text
+import file
+
+# TODO prevoir une structure pour recup tout un environ, le modifier et le passer a process
+
+redef class String
+ # Return environment value for the symbol.
+ # If there is no such environment variable, then return ""
+ #
+ # assert "PATH".environ != ""
+ # assert "NIT %\n".environ == ""
+ fun environ: String
+ do
+ var res = self.to_cstring.get_environ
+ # FIXME: There is no proper way to handle NULL C string yet. What a pitty.
+ var nulstr = once ("".to_cstring.get_environ)
+ if res != nulstr then
+ return res.to_s
+ else
+ return ""
+ end
+ end
+
+ # Set the enviroment value of a variable.
+ #
+ # "NITis".setenv("fun")
+ # assert "NITis".environ == "fun"
+ fun setenv(v: String) do to_cstring.setenv( v.to_cstring )
+
+ # Search for the program `self` in all directories from `PATH`
+ fun program_is_in_path: Bool
+ do
+ var full_path = "PATH".environ
+ var paths = full_path.split(":")
+ for path in paths do if path.file_exists then
+ if path.join_path(self).file_exists then return true
+ end
+
+ return false
+ end
+end
+
+redef class NativeString
+ private fun get_environ: NativeString `{ return getenv(self); `}
+ private fun setenv(value: NativeString) `{ setenv(self, value, 1); `}
+end
+
+redef class Sys
+ redef init
+ do
+ var x = "NIT_SRAND".environ
+ if x != "" then srand_from(x.to_i)
+ end
+end