Re: Environment handling broken in /bin/sh with changes to {get,set,put}env()

From: Andrey Chernov <ache_at_nagual.pp.ru> Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 22:00:01 +0400 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:39:13 UTC

On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 12:53:25PM -0500, Sean C. Farley wrote:
> functions.  I am not certain that sh would work even with OpenSolaris
> since it does similar things to environ under the covers.

It surely not works properly on anything excepting BSD due to this habbit.

> I am also actively looking for other potential bugs from this type of
> misuse.  /bin/sh did not show up for me since I did not have LANG (or
> any other locale variable sh cares about) set in my environment.

Don't care about login and su, they use pam_getenvlist() which copies via 
malloc.

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