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[Andrey Chernov]

On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 04:10:44PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote:
>  Actually, I'm not convinced that crashing the program isn't the right 
>  answer. If an application corrupts memory managed by libc or other 
>  libraries, crashing is generally considered an entirely acceptable failure 
>  mode.

It can be corruption, yes, but it can be intentional action too. Many 
programs directly perform environ clearing or modifications. In case it 
will be directly allowed to put anything there, I would insist of removing 
not errx() but even warnx(), but situation is unclear. POSIX forbids 
modifying environ directly, but C99 have getenv() only and allows 
direct modification of environ, so what happens depends on standard and 
common practice.

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