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From: Arne Henrik Juul <arnej@stud.math.ntnu.no>
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j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote:
> IMHO, Posix specifies the `extern char **environ' extension however.
> This seems to be more liberal in that the implementation is free in
> how this pointer is being initialized.
> 
> I don't see a declaration for environ in our /usr/include/ files.
> Shouldn't it be there?

Posix doesn't specify any (which I think was a mistake), but it would
be nice to have it as an extension.  Maybe in <unistd.h> like
sys_siglist? (<unistd.h>: everything that doesn't fit anywhere else :-)

  -  Arne H. J.