Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 20:06:42 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Andrey Chernov <ache@freebsd.org>, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-src@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall main.c Message-ID: <20070501100642.GB823@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20070501000242.GA19510@nagual.pp.ru> References: <200704301516.l3UFGJbu019162@repoman.freebsd.org> <20070430180043.GK13868@elvis.mu.org> <20070430181824.GA83415@nagual.pp.ru> <20070430225717.GA7008@VARK.MIT.EDU> <20070501000242.GA19510@nagual.pp.ru>
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--r5Pyd7+fXNt84Ff3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2007-May-01 04:02:42 +0400, Andrey Chernov <ache@freebsd.org> wrote: >On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 06:57:17PM -0400, David Schultz wrote: >> I think Alfred is absolutely right, and this is a pretty major >> POLA violation.=20 > >That's -current for. Do you suggest to wait yet more N years to commit=20 >exact that stuff? I would have expected this proposed change to get a heads-up in current@ first. _Especially_ since there is a current thread in current@ about fixing some long-standing memory leaks in our *env() functions. Implementing a major POLA violation without any warning whilst other changes to the same code are being discussed in one of the mailing lists could be seen as impolite. >There is no SVR4 bugs in this commit. The SVR4 behaviour (as documented in SUSv3) is a bug. Note that the C90 (ANSI X3.159-1989, ISO 9899:1990) does not include putenv() or setenv() due to the the lack of any concensus on how they should behave. FreeBSD does not and (AFAIK) has never claimed to be to-the-letter POSIX compliance by default. --=20 Peter Jeremy --r5Pyd7+fXNt84Ff3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGNxEy/opHv/APuIcRAkWuAJ9dKg3/2gK8HFLfJ37TH7NLLef5yQCgv/8L iDGm1PtIKDBlfQyKZS5NPmE= =Ag6J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --r5Pyd7+fXNt84Ff3--
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