Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 10:32:55 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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> From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
> Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 22:39:13 -0500 (CDT)
> 
> I don't have a posix standard, so a simple question ...
> 
> putenv in 2.03 took a const char * argument
> 
> When it was moved to the posix section in cvs it is no longer const
> When I passed the const strings "lfn=" in mntent I had to unconst
> the strings to avoid warnings.  Is it against the standard or some
> other way bad for this to be const in the headers?  Just wondering.

IIRC, the new Posix standard specifies a "char *" type for that
argument.  So we complied.