cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall main.c

[Andrey Chernov]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 12:56:14PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> Ok.  FWIW, this seems like a ridiculous and gross hack just to provide a 
> backdoor for updating the environment w/o making a fooenv() function call 
> (either putenv, or setenv).

It rather history issue. POSIX just precisely documents how putenv was 
originaly implemented. BSD implementation via setenv() is later 
innovation which becomes incompatible with POSIX trend.

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