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Envz Functions
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   Envz vectors are just argz vectors with additional constraints on
the form of each element; as such, argz functions can also be used on
them, where it makes sense.

   Each element in an envz vector is a name-value pair, separated by a
`'='' character; if multiple `'='' characters are present in an
element, those after the first are considered part of the value, and
treated like all other non-`'\0'' characters.

   If _no_ `'='' characters are present in an element, that element is
considered the name of a "null" entry, as distinct from an entry with an
empty value: `envz_get' will return `0' if given the name of null
entry, whereas an entry with an empty value would result in a value of
`""'; `envz_entry' will still find such entries, however.  Null entries
can be removed with `envz_strip' function.

   As with argz functions, envz functions that may allocate memory (and
thus fail) have a return type of `error_t', and return either `0' or
`ENOMEM'.

   These functions are declared in the standard include file `envz.h'.

 - Function: char * envz_entry (const char *ENVZ, size_t ENVZ_LEN,
          const char *NAME)
     The `envz_entry' function finds the entry in ENVZ with the name
     NAME, and returns a pointer to the whole entry--that is, the argz
     element which begins with NAME followed by a `'='' character.  If
     there is no entry with that name, `0' is returned.

 - Function: char * envz_get (const char *ENVZ, size_t ENVZ_LEN, const
          char *NAME)
     The `envz_get' function finds the entry in ENVZ with the name NAME
     (like `envz_entry'), and returns a pointer to the value portion of
     that entry (following the `'='').  If there is no entry with that
     name (or only a null entry), `0' is returned.

 - Function: error_t envz_add (char **ENVZ, size_t *ENVZ_LEN, const
          char *NAME, const char *VALUE)
     The `envz_add' function adds an entry to `*ENVZ' (updating `*ENVZ'
     and `*ENVZ_LEN') with the name NAME, and value VALUE.  If an entry
     with the same name already exists in ENVZ, it is removed first.
     If VALUE is `0', then the new entry will the special null type of
     entry (mentioned above).

 - Function: error_t envz_merge (char **ENVZ, size_t *ENVZ_LEN, const
          char *ENVZ2, size_t ENVZ2_LEN, int OVERRIDE)
     The `envz_merge' function adds each entry in ENVZ2 to ENVZ, as if
     with `envz_add', updating `*ENVZ' and `*ENVZ_LEN'.  If OVERRIDE is
     true, then values in ENVZ2 will supersede those with the same name
     in ENVZ, otherwise not.

     Null entries are treated just like other entries in this respect,
     so a null entry in ENVZ can prevent an entry of the same name in
     ENVZ2 from being added to ENVZ, if OVERRIDE is false.

 - Function: void envz_strip (char **ENVZ, size_t *ENVZ_LEN)
     The `envz_strip' function removes any null entries from ENVZ,
     updating `*ENVZ' and `*ENVZ_LEN'.