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Re: [patch] Error on setenv(..., NULL, ...)

From: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at redhat dot com>
To: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs dot nagy at arm dot com>
Cc: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov at google dot com>, GLIBC Devel <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 22:14:15 +0530
Subject: Re: [patch] Error on setenv(..., NULL, ...)
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On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 04:38:09PM +0000, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> no, this just says that NULL argument is undefined behaviour
> 
> this is not a bug in glibc and i don't think any change should be made

Fair enough, but if we ever decide to protect ourselves against such
bad access, I'd be in favour of something more conservative like
returning a blank string than returning an error.

Siddhesh

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