From 31fcb77412616a4d015e170957df3d9c37c7f7d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Johnson <anj@anl.gov>
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2021 15:56:30 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] macCore: Don't pass NULL or "" into getenv()

---
 modules/libcom/src/macLib/macCore.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/modules/libcom/src/macLib/macCore.c b/modules/libcom/src/macLib/macCore.c
index 7c3cf0690..ee511d6ab 100644
--- a/modules/libcom/src/macLib/macCore.c
+++ b/modules/libcom/src/macLib/macCore.c
@@ -588,7 +588,7 @@ static MAC_ENTRY *lookup( MAC_HANDLE *handle, const char *name, int special )
     }
     if ( (special == FALSE) && (entry == NULL) &&
          (handle->flags & FLAG_USE_ENVIRONMENT) ) {
-        char *value = getenv(name);
+        char *value = name && *name ? getenv(name) : NULL;
         if (value) {
             entry = create( handle, name, FALSE );
             if ( entry ) {