remove unset vars from the environment

Remove vars from the environment that are no longer set. Simplify the code by
removing an unnecessary loop. Add some tests.

Fixes #3124

src/builtin_set.cpp

@@ -321,8 +321,7 @@ static void print_variables(int include_values, int esc, bool shorten_ok, int sc
     }
 }
 
-/// The set builtin. Creates, updates and erases environment variables and environemnt variable
-/// arrays.
+/// The set builtin creates, updates, and erases (removes, deletes) variables.
 int builtin_set(parser_t &parser, io_streams_t &streams, wchar_t **argv) {
     wgetopter_t w;
     // Variables used for parsing the argument list.

src/env.cpp

@@ -174,16 +174,14 @@ static bool var_is_locale(const wcstring &key) {
 static void handle_locale(const wchar_t *env_var_name) {
     debug(2, L"handle_locale() called in response to '%ls' changing", env_var_name);
     const char *old_msg_locale = setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, NULL);
-
-    for (size_t i = 0; locale_variable[i]; i++) {
-        const wchar_t *key = locale_variable[i];
-        const env_var_t var = env_get_string(key);
-        if (!var.empty()) {
-            const std::string &name = wcs2string(key);
-            const std::string &value = wcs2string(var);
+    const env_var_t val = env_get_string(env_var_name, ENV_EXPORT);
+    const std::string &value = wcs2string(val);
+    const std::string &name = wcs2string(env_var_name);
+    debug(2, L"locale var %s='%s'", name.c_str(), value.c_str());
+    if (val.empty()) {
+        unsetenv(name.c_str());
+    } else {
         setenv(name.c_str(), value.c_str(), 1);
-            debug(3, L"locale var %s='%s'", name.c_str(), value.c_str());
-        }
     }
 
     char *locale = setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
@@ -216,15 +214,14 @@ static bool var_is_curses(const wcstring &key) {
 /// libraries.
 static void handle_curses(const wchar_t *env_var_name) {
     debug(2, L"handle_curses() called in response to '%ls' changing", env_var_name);
-    for (size_t i = 0; curses_variable[i]; i++) {
-        const wchar_t *key = curses_variable[i];
-        const env_var_t var = env_get_string(key);
-        if (!var.empty()) {
-            const std::string &name = wcs2string(key);
-            const std::string &value = wcs2string(var);
+    const env_var_t val = env_get_string(env_var_name, ENV_EXPORT);
+    const std::string &name = wcs2string(env_var_name);
+    const std::string &value = wcs2string(val);
+    debug(2, L"curses var %s='%s'", name.c_str(), value.c_str());
+    if (val.empty()) {
+        unsetenv(name.c_str());
+    } else {
         setenv(name.c_str(), value.c_str(), 1);
-            debug(3, L"curses var %s='%s'", name.c_str(), value.c_str());
-        }
     }
     // TODO: Modify input_init() to allow calling it when the terminfo env vars are dynamically
     // changed. At the present time it can be called just once. Also, we should really only do this
@@ -318,11 +315,10 @@ static bool variable_is_colon_delimited_array(const wcstring &str) {
 }
 
 void env_init(const struct config_paths_t *paths /* or NULL */) {
-    // env_read_only variables can not be altered directly by the user.
+    // These variables can not be altered directly by the user.
     const wchar_t *const ro_keys[] = {
-        L"status", L"history", L"_", L"LINES", L"COLUMNS", L"PWD",
-        // L"SHLVL", // will be inserted a bit lower down
-        L"FISH_VERSION",
+        L"status", L"history", L"_", L"LINES", L"COLUMNS", L"PWD", L"FISH_VERSION",
+        // L"SHLVL" is readonly but will be inserted below after we increment it.
     };
     for (size_t i = 0; i < sizeof ro_keys / sizeof *ro_keys; i++) {
         env_read_only.insert(ro_keys[i]);
@@ -339,7 +335,7 @@ void env_init(const struct config_paths_t *paths /* or NULL */) {
     global_env = top;
     global = &top->env;
 
-    // Now the environemnt variable handling is set up, the next step is to insert valid data.
+    // Now the environment variable handling is set up, the next step is to insert valid data.
 
     // Import environment variables. Walk backwards so that the first one out of any duplicates wins
     // (#2784).

tests/c-locale.out

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-58c3bb58
-58c3bc58
-59fc59
-543f54

tests/locale.in

@@ -1,3 +1,27 @@
+# Test behavior related to the locale.
+
+# Verify that our UTF-8 locale produces the expected output.
+echo -n A\u00FCA | xxd --plain
+
+# Verify that exporting a change to the C locale produces the expected output.
+# The output should include the literal byte \xFC rather than the UTF-8 sequence for \u00FC.
+begin
+	set -lx LC_ALL C
+	echo -n B\u00FCB | xxd --plain
+end
+
+# Since the previous change was localized to a block it should no
+# longer be in effect and we should be back to a UTF-8 locale.
+echo -n C\u00FCC | xxd --plain
+
+# Verify that setting a non-exported locale var doesn't affect the behavior.
+# The output should include the UTF-8 sequence for \u00FC rather than that literal byte.
+# Just like the previous test.
+begin
+	set -l LC_ALL C
+	echo -n D\u00FCD | xxd --plain
+end
+
 # Verify that fish can pass through non-ASCII characters in the C/POSIX
 # locale. This is to prevent regression of
 # https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/2802.
@@ -14,22 +38,24 @@
 # echo output directly to the `xxd` program then via a fish instance. The
 # output should be "58c3bb58" for the first statement and "58c3bc58" for the
 # second.
-echo -n X\u00fbX | \
+echo -n X\u00FBX | \
   xxd --plain
-echo X\u00fcX | env LC_ALL=C ../test/root/bin/fish -c 'read foo; echo -n $foo' | \
+echo X\u00FCX | env LC_ALL=C ../test/root/bin/fish -c 'read foo; echo -n $foo' | \
   xxd --plain
 
+# The next tests deliberately spawn another fish instance to test inheritence of env vars.
+
 # This test is subtle. Despite the presence of the \u00fc unicode char (a "u"
 # with an umlaut) the fact the locale is C/POSIX will cause the \xfc byte to
 # be emitted rather than the usual UTF-8 sequence \xc3\xbc. That's because the
 # few single-byte unicode chars (that are not ASCII) are generally in the
-# ISO-8859-1 char set which is encompased by the C locale. The output should
+# ISO 8859-x char sets which are encompassed by the C locale. The output should
 # be "59fc59".
-env LC_ALL=C ../test/root/bin/fish -c 'echo -n Y\u00fcY' | \
+env LC_ALL=C ../test/root/bin/fish -c 'echo -n Y\u00FCY' | \
   xxd --plain
 
 # The user can specify a wide unicode character (one requiring more than a
 # single byte). In the C/POSIX locales we substitute a question-mark for the
 # unencodable wide char. The output should be "543f54".
-env LC_ALL=C ../test/root/bin/fish -c 'echo -n T\u01fdT' | \
+env LC_ALL=C ../test/root/bin/fish -c 'echo -n T\u01FDT' | \
   xxd --plain

tests/locale.out

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+41c3bc41
+42fc42
+43c3bc43
+44c3bc44
+58c3bb58
+58c3bc58
+59fc59
+543f54