A patch from Andreas Neuhaus to be especially careful to not dup

any env variables when spawning child processes.

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/init/init.c b/init/init.c
index 64c7768d6..145452ff3 100644
--- a/init/init.c
+++ b/init/init.c
@@ -396,11 +396,11 @@ static void console_init()
 
 static pid_t run(char *command, char *terminal, int get_enter)
 {
-        int i=0, j=0;
+        int i, j;
         int fd;
         pid_t pid;
-        char *tmpCmd;
-        char *cmd[255], *cmdpath;
+        char *tmpCmd, *s;
+        char *cmd[255], *cmdpath;
         char buf[255];
         static const char press_enter[] =
 
@@ -410,18 +410,25 @@ static pid_t run(char *command, char *terminal, int get_enter)
 
                 "\nPlease press Enter to activate this console. ";
         char *environment[MAXENV+1] = {
+                termType,
                 "HOME=/",
                 "PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin",
                 "SHELL=/bin/sh",
-                termType,
-                "USER=root"
+                "USER=root",
+                NULL
         };
 
-        while (environment[i]) i++;
-        while ((environ[j]) && (i < MAXENV)) {
-                if (strncmp(environ[j], "TERM=", 5))
-                        environment[i++] = environ[j];
-                j++;
+        /* inherit environment to the child, merging our values -andy */
+        for (i=0; environ[i]; i++) {
+                for (j=0; environment[j]; j++) {
+                        s = strchr(environment[j], '=');
+                        if (!strncmp(environ[i], environment[j], s - environment[j]))
+                                break;
+                }
+                if (!environment[j]) {
+                        environment[j++] = environ[i];
+                        environment[j] = NULL;
+                }
         }
 
         if ((pid = fork()) == 0) {