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Date:      Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:47:56 +0400
From:      Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, sergei@FreeBSD.org, scf@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: zsh oddities with recent -current
Message-ID:  <20070725084755.GA75871@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <200707251733.12658.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
References:  <200707251733.12658.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>

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On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 05:33:05PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> I updated my -current box (laptop) on the 18th and I have 2 strange=20
> issues with zsh.
>=20
> 1) I can't unset environmental variables set before the shell started,=20
> eg..

zsh uses system's putenv() but home-rolled delete from environment=20
(instead of unsetenv()). It clearly violates POSIX since it forbids to mix=
=20
putenv/setenv/unsetenv with direct environ manipulations:

"Conforming applications are required not to modify environ directly, but=
=20
to use only the functions described here to manipulate the process=20
environment as an abstract object. Thus, the implementation of the=20
environment access functions has complete control over the data structure=
=20
used to represent the environment (subject to the requirement that environ=
=20
be maintained as a list of strings with embedded equal signs for=20
applications that wish to scan the environment). This constraint allows=20
the implementation to properly manage the memory it allocates, either by=20
using allocated storage for all variables (copying them on the first=20
invocation of setenv() or unsetenv()), or keeping track of which strings=20
are currently in allocated space and which are not, via a separate table=20
or some other means."

Quick fix will be just to disable HAVE_PUTENV config option. It gains=20
nothing in the code but makes troubles.

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http://ache.pp.ru/

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