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| author | ache <ache@FreeBSD.org> | 2007-04-30 03:47:31 +0000 |
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| committer | ache <ache@FreeBSD.org> | 2007-04-30 03:47:31 +0000 |
| commit | c323ce85c0eaf14d111cdf5ef23b15e276294ea1 (patch) | |
| tree | a05df9ea2e50ddf63ff3730a1860e15eb336b414 /lib/libc/stdlib/getenv.3 | |
| parent | 027819c292030cc1823b6a8d986682557191dda4 (diff) | |
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Remove special case skipping initial '=' of the setenv() value "for
compatibility with the different environment conventions" (man page).
With the standards, we don't have them different anymore and
IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 says that
"The values that the environment variables may be assigned are not
restricted except that they are considered to end with a null byte"
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/stdlib/getenv.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/stdlib/getenv.3 | 5 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/getenv.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/getenv.3 index 35547aa..1882ba2 100644 --- a/lib/libc/stdlib/getenv.3 +++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/getenv.3 @@ -57,11 +57,6 @@ These functions set, unset and fetch environment variables from the host .Em environment list . -For compatibility with differing environment conventions, -the given argument -.Fa value -may be prepended with an equal sign -.Dq Li \&= . .Pp The .Fn getenv |
