GNU Gnulib: setenv

Gnulib module: setenv

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:

This function is missing on some platforms: AIX 4.3.2, HP-UX 11.23, IRIX 6.5, Solaris 9, mingw, MSVC 9, BeOS.
This function is not declared on some platforms: OSF/1 5.1.
On some platforms, this function does not fail with ‘EINVAL’ when passed an empty string or a string containing ‘=’: Mac OS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 1.6, OpenBSD 3.8, Cygwin 1.5.x.
On some platforms, this function removes a leading ‘=’ from the value argument: Cygwin 1.5.x.

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:

Older versions of POSIX required that setenv(NULL,"",0) gracefully fail with EINVAL, but not all implementations guarantee this, and the requirement was removed.