Re: [PATCH] Safer environ iteration

["Rafael Garcia-Suarez" <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>]

2008/8/6 Milosz Tanski <mtanski@gridapp.com>:
[...]
> I attached a patch that makes a copy of *env before each iteration
> instead of dereferencing env at every single operation. This relies on
> the agreed upon behavior to never free any memory allocated for vars in
> environ, just dropping the old values on the floor (and it'll get freed
> exit) when replacing an element of environ. This is the behavior for
> putenv/setenv on Linux, Solaris and HP-UX and possibly others. While
> this won't fix the issue on systems that don't conform to this behavior
> but it'll work a lot better in the corner cases on those systems that
> handle it properly.

Thanks, I applied this patch to bleadperl as change #34225.

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"Milosz Tanski" <mtanski@gridapp.com>

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