Subject: bug#23779: 25.0.95; consing "SHELLVAR" onto process-environment doesn't remove it from subprocess env

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2016 04:44:39 +0300

On 06/18/2016 04:36 AM, Noam Postavsky wrote:

> process-environment could grow without bound. Only a serious problem
> if some code calls setenv many times without let-binding
> process-environment which is probably a mistake, but still there could
> be code like that.

Yes, it's easy to see an artificial scenario leading to that. But is it 
at all probable to see one in practice?

Well, anyway, I believe I've made my case about setenv. It would be 
nice, but far less important than getting Eli's patch in.