compatibility with the different environment conventions" (man page).
With the standards, we don't have them different anymore and
IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 says that
"The values that the environment variables may be assigned are not
restricted except that they are considered to end with a null byte"
Issue 6 (also IEEE Std 1003.1-2001) in following areas:
args, return, errors.
Putenv still needs rewriting because specs explicitly says that
altering passed string later should change the environment (currently we
copy the string so can't provide that).
under the RETURN VALUES section so it is consistent with others.
Cleanup the return value text for getenv(3) a little while I am here.
PR: docs/58033
MFC after: 3 days
track.
The $Id$ line is normally at the bottom of the main comment block in the
man page, separated from the rest of the manpage by an empty comment,
like so;
.\" $Id$
.\"
If the immediately preceding comment is a @(#) format ID marker than the
the $Id$ will line up underneath it with no intervening blank lines.
Otherwise, an additional blank line is inserted.
Approved by: bde
