I think clearing environment using:
environ[0] = NULL;
has been kind of a semi-standard for a while now. At least Dovecot and
Postfix clears their environment this way. But this no longer works in
FreeBSD 7.0 (putenv(), environ[0]=NULL, putenv() -> everything is
visible again). Was this change in
On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 22:27 -0500, Sean C. Farley wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>
> > I think clearing environment using:
> >
> > environ[0] = NULL;
> >
> > has been kind of a semi-standard for a while now. At least Dovecot and
> >
On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 12:17 -0500, Sean C. Farley wrote:
> >> I suggest reading the two paragraphs from Open Group's getenv()[1]
> >> documentation starting at "Conforming applications are required not
> >> to modify environ directly, ..." for the rationale in the new design.
> >> Obviously, applic
