Re: os.setenv()???

[Chris Marrin <chris@...>]

Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> > Is there a reason for it not being there, or is it just an oversight?
>
>
> setenv is not an ANSI C library function.
> setenv is available in the Posix library.

Thanks, although it uses the Posix name of 'putenv', which is much 
stupider :-)

I didn't see it because I thought this:

    http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/1997-09/msg00022.html

documented that library and it does not mention putenv. But I see it is 
there in the source.

But this begs the question about which library I should use. They have 
overlapping functionality. And the Posix library have overlapping 
functionality with lfs. Ahhhhhhhhh!

It seems like there should be some grand unification of all this to keep 
the poor programmer from shooting himself in the head and ruining a 
perfectly good LCD monitor :-)

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