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