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Subject: Re: bin/18519: memory leak in putenv
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Synopsis: memory leak in putenv

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: phk
State-Changed-When: Sat Jun 2 02:00:28 PDT 2001
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Due to bad API design, putenv(3) is a memory leaker.
It's even documented in the man-page.

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=18519

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