passing "", "." or ".." as name caused a crash in
getenv() as it would open the directory; then seek()
to determine the file size would fail and return -1.
now checking for these special names and set
error string when its bad.
doing a single read() will not work when /env has a
9p fileserver mounted onto it and the file size is bigger
than the i/o unit. so doing incremental reads until
we get eof.
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