Follow-up: setenv() doesn't export unsetenv()ed variables to environ

From: YAMAMOTO, Taku <taku_at_tackymt.homeip.net>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:17:36 +0900
Ouch, the testcase had got stripped due to inappropriate MIME type.


On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:14:25 +0900
"YAMAMOTO, Taku" <taku_at_tackymt.homeip.net> wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> I found a regression in src/lib/libc/stdlib/getenv.c during tracking
> strange behaviour of the sshguard-pf.
> 
> In short, setenv() doesn't add an entry to environ[] if the name was
> once removed by unsetenv().
> 
> I'm suspecting the function __setenv() lacks care of the case to reuse
> a deactivated entry and it needs the following change:
> 
> --- lib/libc/stdlib/getenv.c.orig	2007-07-21 08:30:13.000000000 +0900
> +++ lib/libc/stdlib/getenv.c	2007-09-10 08:07:22.732672106 +0900
> _at__at_ -492,7 +492,7 _at__at_ __setenv(const char *name, size_t nameLe
>  	newEnvActive++;
>  
>  	/* No need to rebuild environ if the variable was reused. */
> -	if (reuse)
> +	if (reuse && newEnvActive == envActive)
>  		return (0);
>  	else
>  		return (__rebuild_environ(newEnvActive));
> 
> 
> A small testcase is attached.
> It should emit:
> expecting "foo": foo
> expecting "bar": bar
> 
> With current broken setenv(), it would emit:
> expecting "foo": foo
> expecting "bar":
> 
> 
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> 
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