diff --git a/src/miral/launch_app.cpp b/src/miral/launch_app.cpp
index bb028aff67a..0087b08e879 100644
--- a/src/miral/launch_app.cpp
+++ b/src/miral/launch_app.cpp
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 
 namespace
 {
-void strip_mir_env_variables()
+auto mir_env_variables() -> std::vector<std::string>
 {
     static char const mir_prefix[] = "MIR_";
 
@@ -51,10 +51,7 @@ void strip_mir_env_variables()
         }
     }
 
-    for (auto const& var : vars_to_remove)
-    {
-        unsetenv(var.c_str());
-    }
+    return vars_to_remove;
 }
 }  // namespace
 
@@ -64,6 +61,8 @@ auto miral::launch_app_env(
     mir::optional_value<std::string> const& x11_display,
     miral::AppEnvironment const& app_env) -> pid_t
 {
+    static auto const vars_to_remove = mir_env_variables();
+
     pid_t pid = fork();
 
     if (pid < 0)
@@ -73,7 +72,10 @@ auto miral::launch_app_env(
 
     if (pid == 0)
     {
-        strip_mir_env_variables();
+        for (auto const& var : vars_to_remove)
+        {
+            unsetenv(var.c_str());
+        }
 
         if (x11_display)
         {
diff --git a/src/platforms/wayland/cursor.cpp b/src/platforms/wayland/cursor.cpp
index 1c0d589d1c5..e4eda7d8f0f 100644
--- a/src/platforms/wayland/cursor.cpp
+++ b/src/platforms/wayland/cursor.cpp
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ struct wl_shm_pool* make_shm_pool(struct wl_shm* shm, int size, void **data)
     static auto const template_filename =
         std::string{getenv("XDG_RUNTIME_DIR")} + "/wayland-cursor-shared-XXXXXX";
 
-    auto const filename = strdup(template_filename.c_str());
+    char* const filename = const_cast<char*>(template_filename.c_str());
     mir::Fd const fd{mkostemp(filename, O_CLOEXEC)};
     unlink(filename);
     free(filename);