Grandparent didn't just link to "code"; they linked to a five-paragraph comment explaining what is going on. Did you read those comments before you posted your

Grandparent didn't just link to "code"; they linked to a five-paragraph comment explaining what is going on. Did you read those comments before you posted your snarky reply? I think the gist of it is that unlike the glibc implementation, the Illumos implementation of getenv() is lock-free and thread-safe.