Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> wrote:

> On 2025/07/22 13:12, Manuel Giraud wrote:
> > Crystal Kolipe <kolipe.c@exoticsilicon.com> writes:
> > 
> > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 11:24:51PM -0400, Garance ELC Drosehn wrote:
> > >> On 18 Jul 2025, at 14:42, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote:
> > >> 
> > >> > On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 07:30:09PM +0200, Manuel Giraud wrote:
> > >> >> Jeremie Courreges-Anglas <jca@wxcvbn.org> writes:
> > >> > [...]
> > >> >>
> > >> >> As another data point, I tried to search for mentions of "env -S" in all
> > >> >> the patch-* files of ports but couldn't find any.  Do you have examples
> > >> >> where genv was used?
> > >> >
> > >> > Nope, I was not implying there were actual candidates.
> > >> 
> > >> FWIW, I noticed that there was some presentation at BSDcan which mentioned
> > >> 'env -S' in passing, and which said that while they were working on their
> > >> project, they noticed that OpenBSD (and maybe NetBSD?) did not have that
> > >> option.
> > >
> > > I can confirm that NetBSD does _not_ support env -S.
> > 
> > What I gather from this discussion is that it would be "nice to have"
> > user feature while not being standardized and potentially unsafe.  So
> > maybe, we should not support this.  Sorry for the noise.
> 
> also, we didn't have to patch any instances of this in ports.


So nothing needs this now.  They don't even use the genv variation.

Is it actually _used_ in another operating system?  Can someone do the grep?