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Updated: July 2014
 
 

unsetenv(3C)

Name

unsetenv - remove an environment variable

Synopsis

#include <stdlib.h>

int unsetenv(const char *name);

Description

The unsetenv() function removes an environment variable from the environment of the calling process. The name argument points to a string that is the name of the variable to be removed. The named argument cannot contain an '=' character. If the named variable does not exist in the current environment, the environment is unchanged and the function is considered to have completed successfully.

If the application modifies environ or the pointers to which it points, the behavior of unsetenv() is undefined. The unsetenv() function updates the list of pointers to which environ points.

Return Values

Upon successful completion, 0 is returned. Otherwise, -1 is returned, errno set to indicate the error, and the environment is left unchanged.

Errors

The unsetenv() function will fail if:

EINVAL

The name argument is a null pointer, points to an empty string, or points to a string containing an '=' character.

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE
ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Interface Stability
Committed
MT-Level
MT-Safe
Standard

See also

getenv(3C), setenv(3C), attributes(5), standards(5)