On 11/12/25 11:34 AM, Robert Elz wrote:
     Date:        Wed, 12 Nov 2025 06:35:53 -0500
     From:        Grisha Levit <[email protected]>
     Message-ID:  <[email protected]>

   | However, if an external command is executed between the last time an
   | exported variable was modified and the local array is created, the
   | existing variable remains in the environment until the next time that
   | an exported variable is modified.

To me that suggests that bash is trying to optimise away the cost of
building the environment to be exported to exec'd commands - only building
it when required (and that you have found a bug in how that is done).

Pretty close.

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