Subject: Re: [PATCH] wrapper: remove xunsetenv()

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2021 15:29:24 -0700

<[email-masked]> writes:

> On October 29, 2021 5:59 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Jeff King <[email-masked]> writes:
>> 
>> > However, according to the unsetenv() manpage:
>> >
>> >   Prior to glibc 2.2.2, unsetenv() was prototyped as returning void;
>> >   more recent glibc versions follow the POSIX.1-compliant prototype
>> >   shown in the SYNOPSIS.
>> >
>> > So it is POSIX to return an int, but that gives us at least one
>> > platform where unsetenv() returns void (or used to). glibc 2.2.2 is
>> > 2001-era, so that may be old enough that we don't care. But it makes
>> > me wonder if other older or obscure platforms will run into this.
>> 
>> Ahh, OK.  Well, we will hear from them soon enough.  It is not like this is
>> anything urgent.
>
> Well... maybe for some of us 😉

Heh, but we all know you are capable of locally patching ;-).