Re: Bogus putenv?

[Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn at redhat dot com>]

Jeff Johnston wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 14:07 -0500, Jeff Johnston wrote:
> >
> > > Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > newlib's stdlib.h declares
> > > > int putenv( const char* );
> > > >
> > > > According to SUSv3, Linux and Solaris, this should be (without const)
> > > > int putenv( char* );
> > > >
> > > > FreeBSD, however has the same declaration as newlib (with const).
> > > >
> > > > At least I am in favor of following SUSv3 and to ignore BSD's 
> > > > behaviour,
> > > > i.e. I vote for changing newlib's putenv to match with SUSv3.
> > > >
> > > > Ralf
>
> The same functionality is described by glibc.  Not sure why they 
> wouldn't have specified const, but regardless, we might as well be 
> consistent with Single Unix and glibc.  I will change this.
>
> -- Jeff J.

Done.

-- Jeff J.