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25.0.95; consing "SHELLVAR" onto process-environment doesn't remove it from subprocess env

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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: 23779 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Subject: bug#23779: 25.0.95; consing "SHELLVAR" onto process-environment doesn't remove it from subprocess env
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 21:36:12 -0400

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 10:47 AM, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru> wrote:
> On 06/17/2016 05:19 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>>> I wonder if we should make setenv work non-destructively now.
>>
>>
>> Why should we do that?  We have initial-environment if we need the
>> original value.
>
>
> Normally, we only want to change the environment for the duration of a
> command. So, what are the downsides?

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.

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