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diff --git a/libbb/xfuncs_printf.c b/libbb/xfuncs_printf.c
index 108e14043..46ae7ac60 100644
--- a/libbb/xfuncs_printf.c
+++ b/libbb/xfuncs_printf.c
@@ -333,6 +333,29 @@ void FAST_FUNC xsetenv(const char *key, const char *value)
bb_error_msg_and_die(bb_msg_memory_exhausted);
}
+/* Handles "VAR=VAL" strings, even those which are part of environ
+ * _right now_
+ */
+void FAST_FUNC bb_unsetenv(const char *var)
+{
+ char *tp = strchr(var, '=');
+
+ if (!tp) {
+ unsetenv(var);
+ return;
+ }
+
+ /* In case var was putenv'ed, we can't replace '='
+ * with NUL and unsetenv(var) - it won't work,
+ * env is modified by the replacement, unsetenv
+ * sees "VAR" instead of "VAR=VAL" and does not remove it!
+ * horror :( */
+ tp = xstrndup(var, tp - var);
+ unsetenv(tp);
+ free(tp);
+}
+
+
// Die with an error message if we can't set gid. (Because resource limits may
// limit this user to a given number of processes, and if that fills up the
// setgid() will fail and we'll _still_be_root_, which is bad.)