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Message-ID: <5538FA84.2060807@safe.ca>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 09:58:28 -0400
From: Jean-Marc Pigeon <jmp@...e.ca>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: setenv if value=NULL, what say standard? Bug?
On 04/23/2015 09:22 AM, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> * Jean-Marc Pigeon <jmp@...e.ca> [2015-04-23 08:58:50 -0400]:
>>>
>>>> so the library (glibc and old libc) used for linux over the
>>>> years defined an expected behavior to this "UB".
>>>
>>> No, that was merely a bug in glibc, not a feature.
>>
>> Hmmm... glibc-2.21, setenv.c explicitly check the value NULL
>> condition, so situation is checked, you could object about the
>> way program handle it, but it is not a bug (situation expected
>> and addressed).
>>
>
> you are wrong, glibc actually corrupted then environ on NULL
> argument and this was fixed recently
>
> http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=03c1e456b079929a8290aeb4aadb05c0df73bfd2
>
> stop mixing runtime failure with ub, that leads to nonsense
> discussions.
>
glibc-2.12-1.132.el6_5.2.x86_64
I do not confirm env corruption, try:
#include <stdio.h>
main()
{
#define ENVNAME "BIGRE"
(void) setenv(ENVNAME,getenv("MISSING_FROM_ENV"),1);
(void) fprintf(stdout,"1 env %s=<%s>\n",ENVNAME,getenv(ENVNAME));
(void) setenv(ENVNAME,"",1);
(void) fprintf(stdout,"2 env %s=<%s>\n",ENVNAME,getenv(ENVNAME));
(void) setenv(ENVNAME,"something",1);
(void) fprintf(stdout,"3 env %s=<%s>\n",ENVNAME,getenv(ENVNAME));
}
What I am trying to explain, you have something not
defined in spec, was resolved in a way (you may not like, I agree)
for EONs.
Now "you" decide, to resolve UB another way, you may
have tons of applications in jeopardy.
--
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