Hi,

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote:
> In fact,
>
>     http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getenv.html
>
> says that only setenv(), unsetenv() and putenv() may invalidate
> previous return values.  Note that getenv() is not listed as a
> function that is allowed to break return values from a previous call
> to getenv().

Before I sent the e-mail, I checked that very page to be sure I wasn't
entirely insane.  Specifically, the second paragraph begins with:

> The string pointed to may be overwritten by a subsequent call to getenv(), 
> [...]

I read that line as confirmation that this is indeed acceptably
standard behavior.  Even the getenv man page on my Fedora workstation
says:

> The string pointed to by the return value of getenv() may be statically 
> allocated, and can be modified by a subsequent call to getenv(), putenv(3), 
> setenv(3), or unsetenv(3).

Am I misinterpreting these statements?

Thanks.

David
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