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diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib deleted file mode 160000 -Subproject 443bc5ffcf7429e557f4a371b0661abe98ddbc1 diff --git a/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/setenv.texi b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/setenv.texi new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6549d7f --- /dev/null +++ b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/setenv.texi @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +@node setenv +@section @code{setenv} +@findex setenv + +POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/setenv.html} + +Gnulib module: setenv + +Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@item +This function is missing on some platforms: +AIX 4.3.2, HP-UX 11.23, IRIX 6.5, Solaris 9, mingw, MSVC 9, BeOS. +@item +This function is not declared on some platforms: +OSF/1 5.1. +@item +On some platforms, this function does not fail with @samp{EINVAL} when +passed an empty string or a string containing @samp{=}: +MacOS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 1.6, OpenBSD 3.8, Cygwin 1.5.x. +@item +On some platforms, this function removes a leading @samp{=} from the +value argument: +Cygwin 1.5.x. +@end itemize + +Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@item +Older versions of POSIX required that @code{setenv(NULL,"",0)} gracefully +fail with @code{EINVAL}, but not all implementations guarantee this, +and the requirement was removed. +@end itemize |