On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 12:56:14PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > Ok. FWIW, this seems like a ridiculous and gross hack just to provide a > backdoor for updating the environment w/o making a fooenv() function call > (either putenv, or setenv).
It rather history issue. POSIX just precisely documents how putenv was originaly implemented. BSD implementation via setenv() is later innovation which becomes incompatible with POSIX trend. -- http://ache.pp.ru/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
