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Date:      Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:47:40 +0400
From:      Andrey Chernov <ache@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall main.c
Message-ID:  <20070430174740.GB82975@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <200704301256.15557.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <200704301516.l3UFGJbu019162@repoman.freebsd.org> <200704301229.21190.jhb@freebsd.org> <20070430164031.GA82368@nagual.pp.ru> <200704301256.15557.jhb@freebsd.org>

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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.

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