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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-05-24 04:52:22 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-05-24 04:52:22 +0000 |
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Merging upstream version 6.8.
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diff --git a/man3/clearenv.3 b/man3/clearenv.3 deleted file mode 100644 index 3ffd761..0000000 --- a/man3/clearenv.3 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,137 +0,0 @@ -'\" t -.\" Copyright 2001 John Levon <moz@compsoc.man.ac.uk> -.\" -.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft -.\" -.\" Additions, aeb, 2001-10-17. -.TH clearenv 3 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7" -.SH NAME -clearenv \- clear the environment -.SH LIBRARY -Standard C library -.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) -.SH SYNOPSIS -.nf -.B #include <stdlib.h> -.P -.B "int clearenv(void);" -.fi -.P -.RS -4 -Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see -.BR feature_test_macros (7)): -.RE -.P -.BR clearenv (): -.nf - /* glibc >= 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE - || /* glibc <= 2.19: */ _SVID_SOURCE || _BSD_SOURCE -.fi -.SH DESCRIPTION -The -.BR clearenv () -function clears the environment of all name-value -pairs and sets the value of the external variable -.I environ -to NULL. -After this call, new variables can be added to the environment using -.BR putenv (3) -and -.BR setenv (3). -.SH RETURN VALUE -The -.BR clearenv () -function returns zero on success, and a nonzero -value on failure. -.\" Most versions of UNIX return -1 on error, or do not even have errors. -.\" glibc info and the Watcom C library document "a nonzero value". -.SH ATTRIBUTES -For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see -.BR attributes (7). -.TS -allbox; -lbx lb lb -l l l. -Interface Attribute Value -T{ -.na -.nh -.BR clearenv () -T} Thread safety MT-Unsafe const:env -.TE -.SH STANDARDS -.TP -.BR putenv () -POSIX.1-2008. -.TP -.BR clearenv () -None. -.SH HISTORY -.TP -.BR putenv () -glibc 2.0. -POSIX.1-2001. -.TP -.BR clearenv () -glibc 2.0. -.P -Various UNIX variants (DG/UX, HP-UX, QNX, ...). -POSIX.9 (bindings for FORTRAN77). -POSIX.1-1996 did not accept -.BR clearenv () -and -.BR putenv (3), -but changed its mind and scheduled these functions for some -later issue of this standard (see \[sc]B.4.6.1). -However, POSIX.1-2001 -adds only -.BR putenv (3), -and rejected -.BR clearenv (). -.SH NOTES -On systems where -.BR clearenv () -is unavailable, the assignment -.P -.in +4n -.EX -environ = NULL; -.EE -.in -.P -will probably do. -.P -The -.BR clearenv () -function may be useful in security-conscious applications that want to -precisely control the environment that is passed to programs -executed using -.BR exec (3). -The application would do this by first clearing the environment -and then adding select environment variables. -.P -Note that the main effect of -.BR clearenv () -is to adjust the value of the pointer -.BR environ (7); -this function does not erase the contents of the buffers -containing the environment definitions. -.P -The DG/UX and Tru64 man pages write: If -.I environ -has been modified by anything other than the -.BR putenv (3), -.BR getenv (3), -or -.BR clearenv () -functions, then -.BR clearenv () -will return an error and the process environment will remain unchanged. -.\" .P -.\" HP-UX has a ENOMEM error return. -.SH SEE ALSO -.BR getenv (3), -.BR putenv (3), -.BR setenv (3), -.BR unsetenv (3), -.BR environ (7) |