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@@ -637,21 +637,6 @@ architecture-dependent library for your -DDEBUGGING version of perl. You can do this by changing all the *archlib* variables in config.sh to point to your new architecture-dependent library. -=head3 Environment access - -Perl often needs to write to the program's environment, such as when -C<%ENV> is assigned to. Many implementations of the C library function -C<putenv()> leak memory, so where possible perl will manipulate the -environment directly to avoid these leaks. The default is now to perform -direct manipulation whenever perl is running as a stand alone interpreter, -and to call the safe but potentially leaky C<putenv()> function when the -perl interpreter is embedded in another application. You can force perl -to always use C<putenv()> by compiling with -C<-Accflags="-DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV">, see section L</"Altering Configure -variables for C compiler switches etc.">. You can force an embedded perl -to use direct manipulation by setting C<PL_use_safe_putenv = 0;> after -the C<perl_construct()> call. - =head3 External glob Before File::Glob entered core in 5.6.0 globbing was implemented by shelling |