This is not a good argument imo. Its “rarity” still affects a tremendous number of folks in profoundly vexing ways that are difficult to debug on account of thi

This is not a good argument imo. Its “rarity” still affects a tremendous number of folks in profoundly vexing ways that are difficult to debug on account of this not only affecting C but innumerable other languages’ compilers and interpreters that rely on the stock getenv implementation. I wouldn’t be surprised if a good chunk of compilers and interpreters in other languages suffer from this gotcha’. I mean, I wouldn’t even be surprised if some JVM implementations silently expose their users to bugs on account of this implementation. EDIT: … ha, sure looks like it https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/a2c0fa6f9ccefd3d1b088c51d0b8170cfb59a885/src/jdk.jpackage/unix/native/common/UnixSysInfo.cpp#L58 https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/a2c0fa6f9ccefd3d1b088c51...