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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: Timo Hirvonen <tihirvon@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use setenv(), fix warnings
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 12:29:59 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vd5h96eyg.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060226203756.05dcfb26.tihirvon@gmail.com> (Timo Hirvonen's message of "Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:37:56 +0200")

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.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-02-26 20:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-26 15:13 [PATCH] Use setenv(), fix warnings Timo Hirvonen
2006-02-26 18:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-26 18:37   ` Timo Hirvonen
2006-02-26 19:38     ` Jason Riedy
2006-02-26 20:29     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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