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doc: Use @code around errno constants. * doc/posix-functions/mkfifoat.texi: Use @code for errno constants instead of @samp. * doc/posix-functions/mknodat.texi: Likewise. * doc/posix-functions/setenv.texi: Likewise. * doc/posix-functions/symlinkat.texi: Likewise. * doc/posix-functions/unsetenv.texi: Likewise. * doc/glibc-functions/sethostname.texi: Use @code around errno constants. * doc/posix-functions/chmod.texi: Likewise. * doc/posix-functions/posix_fallocate.texi: Likewise. * doc/posix-functions/ptsname_r.texi: Likewise.
@node unsetenv
@subsection @code{unsetenv}
@findex unsetenv
POSIX specification:@* @url{https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/functions/unsetenv.html}
Gnulib module: unsetenv
@mindex unsetenv
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
This function is missing on some platforms:
AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11.23, Solaris 9, mingw, MSVC 14.
@item
This function has the return type @samp{void} instead of @samp{int} on some
platforms:
FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 1.6, OpenBSD 3.8.
@item
On some platforms, this function does not fail with @code{EINVAL} when
passed an empty string or a string containing @samp{=}:
FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 1.6, OpenBSD 4.7.
@item
This function removes only the first value association for the given
environment variable, not all of them, on some platforms:
Solaris 11.4, Haiku.
@end itemize
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
Older versions of POSIX required that @code{unsetenv(NULL)} gracefully
fail with @code{EINVAL}, but not all implementations guarantee this,
and the requirement was removed.
@end itemize