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-rw-r--r--lib/libc/stdlib/getenv.33
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/getenv.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/getenv.3
index 7445b470fbca6..9cd3db2f288fb 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdlib/getenv.3
+++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/getenv.3
@@ -89,7 +89,8 @@ to the given
The
.Fn putenv
function takes an argument of the form ``name=value'' and
-puts it directly into the current environment.
+puts it directly into the current environment,
+so altering the argument shall change the environment.
If the variable
.Fa name
does not exist in the list,