On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 10:16:03AM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=866060 > seems to be related, and maybe the changes in the patch for that bug > are sufficient to address the concerns in this bug? (That patch as > just been taken upstream.)
JFTR, that patch was added to man-pages-5.11, the Changes list | environ.7 | Bastien Roucariès | Reorder the text | Move the text describing how to set environment variable before | the list(s) of variables in order to improve readability. | Bastien Roucariès | Document convention of string in environ | Document the name=value system and that nul byte is forbidden. | Bastien Roucariès | Document that HOME, LOGNAME, SHELL, USER are set at login time | and point to the su(1) manual page. | Bastien Roucariès | Add see also ld.so(8) for LD_ variables | Michael Kerrisk [Bastien Roucariès] | Improve the description of PATH | Add more details of how PATH is used, and mention the legacy | use of an empty prefix. | Bastien Roucariès [Alejandro Colomar, Bastien Roucaries, Vincent Lefevre] | Document valid values of pathnames for SHELL, PAGER and EDITOR/VISUAL | Michael Kerrisk [Bastien Roucariès] | Note the default if PAGER is not defined | Michael Kerrisk | Be a little more precise when discussing 'exec' | Say "execve(2)" instead of "exec(3)", and note that this step | starts a new program (not a new process!). | Michael Kerrisk [Bastien Roucariès] | Relocate and reword the mention of _GNU_SOURCE and the man page now reads | PAGER | The user's preferred utility to display text files. Any | string acceptable as a command-string operand to the sh -c | command shall be valid. If PAGER is null or is not set, then | applications that launch a pager will default to a program such | as less(1) or more(1). | | EDITOR/VISUAL | The user's preferred utility to edit text files. Any string | acceptable as a command_string operand to the sh -c command | shall be valid. So this bug can be closed once that version enters Debian. Cheers, Flo
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