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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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Subject: Re: bin/10342: putenv(3) unnecessarily calls strdup/free
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<<On Wed, 26 Jan 2000 17:40:02 -0800 (PST), "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> said:

>  Looking at implementation is probably not a good idea, as that may
>  change.  Also depending on behavior not in Posix may cause problems
>  down the road.

Which is why portable programs must not use setenv(), which is not a
POSIX interface (nor is it in SUSv2).

-GAWollman



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