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-.TH CLEARENV 3 2010-10-04 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH CLEARENV 3 2014-08-19 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
clearenv \- clear the environment
.SH SYNOPSIS
pairs and sets the value of the external variable
.I environ
to NULL.
-.SH "RETURN VALUE"
+.SH RETURN VALUE
The
.BR clearenv ()
function returns zero on success, and a nonzero
.\" Most versions of UNIX return -1 on error, or do not even have errors.
.\" Glibc info and the Watcom C library document "a nonzero value".
.SH VERSIONS
-Not in libc4, libc5.
-In glibc since glibc 2.0.
-.SH "CONFORMING TO"
+Available since glibc 2.0.
+.SH CONFORMING TO
Various UNIX variants (DG/UX, HP-UX, QNX, ...).
POSIX.9 (bindings for FORTRAN77).
POSIX.1-1996 did not accept
but changed its mind and scheduled these functions for some
later issue of this standard (cf. B.4.6.1).
However, POSIX.1-2001
-only adds
+adds only
.BR putenv (3),
and rejected
.BR clearenv ().
will return an error and the process environment will remain unchanged.
.\" .LP
.\" HP-UX has a ENOMEM error return.
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.SH SEE ALSO
.BR getenv (3),
.BR putenv (3),
.BR setenv (3),
.BR unsetenv (3),
.BR environ (7)
+.SH COLOPHON
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