From fb8ccd7a05847c19a863be785d1786846671a1c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Phil Sutter <n0-1@freewrt.org>
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 22:38:03 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix for enviroment variable expansion

---
 src/conky.c | 12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/conky.c b/src/conky.c
index 5ea77a59..8d2adf96 100644
--- a/src/conky.c
+++ b/src/conky.c
@@ -2825,13 +2825,17 @@ static int extract_variable_text_internal(struct text_object *retval, const char
 				}
 				s = p;
 
+				/* search for variable in environment */
+
 				var = getenv(buf);
+				if (var) {
+					obj = create_plain_text(var);
+					if (obj)
+						append_object(retval, obj);
+					continue;
+				}
 
 				/* if variable wasn't found in environment, use some special */
-				if (var) {
-					strncpy(buf, var, 255);
-				}
-				arg = 0;
 
 				/* split arg */
 				if (strchr(buf, ' ')) {