[Bug libc/15607] New: Add threadsafe version of getenv()

["hadess at hadess dot net" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>]

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15607

            Bug ID: 15607
           Summary: Add threadsafe version of getenv()
           Product: glibc
           Version: unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: libc
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: hadess at hadess dot net
                CC: drepper.fsp at gmail dot com

gnome-settings-daemon is a daemon running in a GNOME session to apply stored
settings (such as the user's preferred locale) to the running session and its
own children (such as applications launched using the media-keys).

We started hitting SEGVs somewhat randomly recently:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701322

which are caused by races between getenv() (as used by the glibc's gettext
implementation) and setenv() (called by gnome-settings-daemon to change its own
environment).

Having getenv_r()/setenv_r() would avoid this problem and make our
implementation more straight-forward and cleaner.

[1]: https://bug701322.bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=245695

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