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Timo Hirvonen <tihirvon@gmail.com> writes:

> putenv(3):
>     "If the argument `string` is of the form `name`, and does not
>     contain an `=' character, then the variable `name` is removed from
>     the environment."
>
> So the variable is emptied, not removed.  But usually empty environment
> variables are treated as if they didn't exist...

Yes we were aware of that when we did it.