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Re: [PATCH] Fix null environ crash in getenv() provided by lib/sh/getenv.c

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  Re: [PATCH] Fix null environ crash in getenv() provided by lib/sh/getenv.c Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2018-07-09 10:16 -0400

#14301 — Re: [PATCH] Fix null environ crash in getenv() provided by lib/sh/getenv.c

On 7/8/18 7:21 AM, Keeley Hoek wrote:
> In running bash on an embedded target, bash crashes for the silly
> reason that environ is NULL.
> 
> I haven't been able to tell whether this is actually permitted by the
> standard (as if?), but in bash I think this behavior is inconsistent
> anyway because:

It's probably permitted by the standard simply because the standard doesn't
specify the value of environ. As a practical matter, on Unix systems, even
when execve() is supplied a NULL third argument, environ is never null.
It's not unreasonable to check for it, though.

Chet
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