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A safe API would look a lot like Windows' GetEnvironmentVariable and SetEnvironmentVariable

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winbase/...

Yep. GetEnvironmentStrings and FreeEnvironmentStrings are probably even more noteworthy as they seem to substitute for an exposed environ array, though they push more effort to the application.

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