Re: zsh oddities with recent -current

From: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor_at_gsoft.com.au>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:16:10 +0930
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 12:47:56PM +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 05:33:05PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > > I updated my -current box (laptop) on the 18th and I have 2
> > > strange issues with zsh.
> > >
> > > 1) I can't unset environmental variables set before the shell
> > > started, eg..
> >
> > zsh uses system's putenv() but home-rolled delete from environment
> > (instead of unsetenv()). It clearly violates POSIX since it forbids
> > to mix putenv/setenv/unsetenv with direct environ manipulations:
...
> > Quick fix will be just to disable HAVE_PUTENV config option. It
> > gains nothing in the code but makes troubles.

That works around it nicely, thanks.

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