From the vfork manpage:
> The vfork() function has the same effect as fork(2), except that
> the behavior is undefined if the process created by vfork() either
> modifies any data other than a variable of type pid_t used to store
> the return value from vfork(), or returns from the function in which
> vfork() was called, or calls any other function before successfully
> calling _exit(2) or one of the exec(3) family of functions.
unsetenv is still called inside a child process, so it does not
influence the rest of the application.