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Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 03:03:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Andrew R. Reiter" <arr@watson.org>
To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: audit work:  libc's setenv() and putenv()
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On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Bruce Evans wrote:

> Hardly anything checks for errors from setenv() of course.  E.g., the
> not unimportant login utility "handles" errors from setenv() by explicitly
> ignoring them.
> 

Ya, Im actually going through some code now for -audit for having some
code check the return values... 

:-/

Andrew

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