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March 2015

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☑ An Unhealthy Environment

Recently I’ve been writing code to spawn child processes that had to deal with the POSIX functions for querying and manipulating environment variables. I’ve only just realised how truly awful this interface is in the context of modern multi-threaded applications, and this post is simply me sharing the pain.

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25 Mar 2015 at 7:28AM in Software
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Photo by Alex Gindin on Unsplash
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