Fix cmd_run overwriting the environment

Some commands need the environment to function properly. One such
example is check_ssh and check_by_ssh when a SOCKS proxy is required.

This patch use setenv and extern char **environ to alter and pass the
new environment to the child process Those modules have been added to
Gnulib for portability.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 5cbb9027..79ddc535 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ This file documents the major additions and syntax changes between releases.
         Fix translations when extra-opts aren't enabled (Jan Wagner - #2832884)
         Fix parsing of multi-line strings in check_snmp (broken in 1.4.14) and enhance output in such case (#2832451)
         Fix detection of pst3 64-bit compile flags with Sun CC
+        Fix cmd_run overwriting the environment, which would break some commands that needed it
         WARNINGS
         Updated developer documentation to say that performance labels should not have an equals sign or
         single quote in the label