Re: FreeBSD has setenv but not clearenv

[Eric Blake]

On 06/05/2013 03:10 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've had multiple reports (https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?36848,
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=244517) telling me that FreeBSD
> is missing the clearenv function, even though it has setenv.  It would
> be very helpful if Gnulib could handle this.  Is "environ = NULL;"
> portable, or does it need something cleverer?

clearenv() is non-standard (it is a glibc extension); but yes, glibc
documents that "environ = NULL" is a portable alternative.  And yes, it
is probably quite easy to write a gnulib module that would provide
clearenv everywhere, although I fail to see why applications need the
overhead of a function call when an assignment would do.

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