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Re: A security hole

#736
From: Darryl P. Wagoner
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1988 14:18
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>	Nothing.  That's not the point.  How do you specify the PATH env
>variable from within your C program?  Inquiring minds want to know...
>the who point, I thought, of this bugs forum, was to bring bugs to the
>attention of the people in charge of removing them.

On Sys V or at least the one's I work on have a function called putenv(3)
and there is a public domain set of routines that will work on both
BSD and Sys V, called setenv(3l), delenv(3l), etc.

Cheers,



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From: dpw@unisec.usi.com (Darryl P. Wagoner)
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Subject: Re: A security hole
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Date: 19 Mar 88 14:18:32 GMT
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