svn commit: r199983 - in head: lib/libc/stdlib tools/regression/environ

[Brian Fundakowski Feldman]

On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 05:04:31AM +0000, Brian Feldman wrote:
> Author: green
> Date: Tue Dec  1 05:04:31 2009
> New Revision: 199983
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/199983
> 
> Log:
>   Do not gratuitously fail *env(3) operations due to corrupt ('='-less)
>   **environ entries.  This puts non-getenv(3) operations in line with
>   getenv(3) in that bad environ entries do not cause all operations to
>   fail.  There is still some inconsistency in that getenv(3) in the
>   absence of any environment-modifying operation does not emit corrupt
>   environ entry warnings.
>   
>   I also fixed another inconsistency in getenv(3) where updating the
>   global environ pointer would not be reflected in the return values.
>   It would have taken an intermediary setenv(3)/putenv(3)/unsetenv(3)
>   in order to see the change.
	^^^
I'm apparently pretty sleepy, because I had forgotten what the second half
of the change was for :P

It makes getenv(3) capable of emitting the corrupted environ warnings.
However, this is still avoided in the no-memory-allocation scenario.

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