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		josefx on Nov 20, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Setenv Is Not Thread Safe and C Doesn't Want to Fi... > I don't think the C standard would ever introduce `tgetenv()` to fix a problem it doesn't have The C standard has no problem acknowledging that getenv is subject to data races for most of its implementations. As far as I can tell that part was even added at the same time as threading support.

DSMan195276 on Nov 20, 2023 [–]

Well actually I'll have to eat my words on that one - I didn't catch that Annex K in C11 includes `getenv_s` (even if it is optional).

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