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Date:      Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:12:53 +0400
From:      Andrey Chernov <ache@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/stdlib getenv.3 getenv.c putenv.c setenv.c
Message-ID:  <20070430191253.GA87375@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20070430185844.GD73050@tirith.brixandersen.dk>
References:  <200704301656.l3UGuIqf048148@repoman.freebsd.org> <20070430183624.GA73050@tirith.brixandersen.dk> <20070430184854.GA87050@nagual.pp.ru> <20070430185844.GD73050@tirith.brixandersen.dk>

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On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 08:58:44PM +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
> > To the matter: env incorrectly calls setenv("name=3D...", ...) which is
> > POSIX violation:
>=20
> Ok, so we can fix all in-tree occurrences that violate the above, but
> what about 3rd party software that relies on setenv("name=3D...", ...)
> working on FreeBSD?

In case you mean some ports, they should be fixed, and I'll help. Such=20
fixes are backward compatible, so will works for older FreeBSD versions=20
too.

We can't stay in the local BSD ghetto forever, we already later for=20
several years with the changes in question. Ether we implement standards=20
like others already do or we doomed to live with old rotten software=20
only forever.

--=20
http://ache.pp.ru/

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