[PATCH 02/14] Add a note about portability of environment variable
[email protected] Mon, 25 Jan 2021 10:40:27 +0000
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.debian.internationalization.english |
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From: Bastien Roucariès <[email protected]> Some variables are portable at least under UNIX Signed-off-by: Bastien Roucariès <[email protected]> --- man7/environ.7 | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/man7/environ.7 b/man7/environ.7 index 7d6318c1a..fe220cc03 100644 --- a/man7/environ.7 +++ b/man7/environ.7 @@ -242,6 +242,16 @@ tell applications about the window size, possibly overriding the actual size. may specify the desired printer to use. See .BR lpr (1). +.SH CONFORMING TO +The variables +.B HOME +.B LOGNAME, +.B PATH, +.B PWD, +.B SHELL +are specified by +POSIX.1-1996 +and should be reasonably portable. .SH NOTES The .BR prctl (2)