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author | Ray Molenkamp <github@lazydodo.com> | 2020-09-10 19:18:32 +0300 |
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committer | Ray Molenkamp <github@lazydodo.com> | 2020-09-10 19:18:32 +0300 |
commit | 5af75e2333b3c568a70d8301e12716e38ae06b6c (patch) | |
tree | 0bcacd81b61a62db70b6f6f764ac1aa6e4fd5f4a /source/blender | |
parent | 11df9cb9fb7391825220eaa7e4975a298f339674 (diff) |
Cleanup: Update doc string for BLI_getenv
The reason for this functions existence was poorly documented
Diffstat (limited to 'source/blender')
-rw-r--r-- | source/blender/blenlib/intern/path_util.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/source/blender/blenlib/intern/path_util.c b/source/blender/blenlib/intern/path_util.c index cde4394a8c3..01bd0329f58 100644 --- a/source/blender/blenlib/intern/path_util.c +++ b/source/blender/blenlib/intern/path_util.c @@ -1299,6 +1299,11 @@ void BLI_setenv_if_new(const char *env, const char *val) /** * Get an env var, result has to be used immediately. + * + * On windows getenv gets its variables from a static copy of the enviroment variables taken at + * process startup, causing it to not pick up on evenironment variables created during runtime. + * This function uses an alternative method to get enviroment variables that does pick up on + * runtime environment variables. */ const char *BLI_getenv(const char *env) { |