Proposal: add clearEnv and setEnvironment to System.Posix.Env

[Evan Laforge]

While you're doing this, could you submit my patch from here:

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5930

I don't have permission, and I'd almost totally forgotten about it.

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Paolo Capriotti <p.capriotti at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Paolo Capriotti <p.capriotti at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> System.Posix.Env doesn't currently define a binding for the POSIX
>> function clearenv. I propose to add:
>>
>> clearEnv :: IO ()
>> setEnvironment :: [(String, String)] -> IO ()
>>
>> 'clearEnv' is a direct wrapper for the underlying function, while
>> 'setEnvironment' is a higher-level utility function which mirrors the
>> interface of the existing 'getEnvironment'. See attached patches here:
>> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5648.
>>
>> Discussion deadline: 24 Mar 2012.
>
> We are past the deadline, so, if there are no objections, I'll go
> ahead and push my patches.
>
> BR,
> Paolo
>
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