bug#79714: env: always adds __CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING var on macOS since v9.8
Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
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| Organization | UCLA Computer Science Department |
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On 2025-11-02 01:24, Bruno Haible via GNU coreutils Bug Reports wrote: > We could document that users should not use environment variables > that start with "__" In addition to Pádraig's qualms, POSIX says[1] that if an environment variable's name consists solely of uppercase ASCII letters, '_', and non-initial digits, the variable might affect the behavior of standard utilities like 'cat'. So if we document environment variable gotchas, we should document that one too. [1]: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/basedefs/V1_chap08.html#tag_08_01