[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-675259 ] os.environ leaks under FreeBSD and Mac OS X

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Bugs item #675259, was opened at 2003-01-27 16:39
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Category: Documentation
Group: Platform-specific
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Stuart Bishop (zenzen)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: os.environ leaks under FreeBSD and Mac OS X

Initial Comment:
If this sort if thing is documented anywhere, the putenv(3) method leaks under FreeBSD and Mac OS X (Mac OS X documents it as a bug they inherited from the FreeBSD codebase in the man page).

So don't set environment variables in a loop.

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>Comment By: Stuart Bishop (zenzen)
Date: 2003-01-29 11:15

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Relevant URL's:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=misc/19406
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=10341
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=5604

An alternative may be to bypass the putenv(3) method on these platforms
and manipulate environ manually in which case this is not a documentation bug but a feature request.

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