#include <stdlib.h>
int unsetenv(const char *name);
The unsetenv() function shall remove an environment variable from the environment of the calling process. The name argument points to a string, which is the name of the variable to be removed. The named argument shall not contain an '=' character. If the named variable does not exist in the current environment, the environment shall be 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 shall update the list of pointers to which environ points.
The unsetenv() function need not be reentrant. A function that is not required to be reentrant is not required to be thread-safe.
Upon successful completion, zero shall be returned. Otherwise, -1 shall be returned, errno set to indicate the error, and the environment shall be unchanged.
The unsetenv() function shall fail if:
The following sections are informative.
Refer to the RATIONALE section in setenv() .
getenv() , setenv() , the Base Definitions volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, <stdlib.h>, <sys/types.h>, <unistd.h>