From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:29:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use setenv(), fix warnings
Message-ID: <7vd5h96eyg.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060226203756.05dcfb26.tihirvon@gmail.com>

Timo Hirvonen <tihirvon@gmail.com> writes:

> putenv(3):
>     "If the argument `string` is of the form `name`, and does not
>     contain an `=' character, then the variable `name` is removed from
>     the environment."
>
> So the variable is emptied, not removed.  But usually empty environment
> variables are treated as if they didn't exist...

Yes we were aware of that when we did it.