Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 07:50:48 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl> Subject: Re: why does _PATH_STDPATH contain the current directory? Message-ID: <200912240750.48103.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20091223221524.GA68650@stack.nl> References: <20091223221524.GA68650@stack.nl>
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On Wednesday 23 December 2009 5:15:24 pm Jilles Tjoelker wrote: > /usr/include/paths.h has: > /* All standard utilities path. */ > #define _PATH_STDPATH "/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:" > > The current directory appears to have been added accidentally years ago. > Can I go ahead and take it out (the colon)? > > The paths for rescue already do not have the current directory. > > The main use for _PATH_STDPATH is to find all standard utilities, such > as for the POSIX-specified confstr(_CS_PATH), 'getconf PATH' and > 'command -p'. Some utilities also use it instead of _PATH_DEFPATH for > root, but these values tend to be overridden by /etc/login.conf and/or > shell startup files. I vote to fix it. That's an old bug. :) -- John Baldwin
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