Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 20:38:48 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: pst@shockwave.com, wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: _PATH_* Message-ID: <199603090938.UAA01522@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>I think these make perfect sense. You could conceivably have shared versions >of a /bin program in /usr/bin, which is why this was set this way in the first >place. The second is for stupid compatibility, the final colon is curdir, >as you already knew. I don't like it, but I don't want to break it either. > /* All standard utilities path. */ > #define _PATH_STDPATH \ > "/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:" Grepping in /usr/src shows that _PATH_DEFPATH is only used for the USER_CS_PATH case of sysctl(3). USER_CS_PATH is only used for user.cs_path in sysctl(8), for the obsolete confstr(3) and for whereis(1). user.cs_path doesn't seem to be used. I think the final colon shouldn't be there. Bruce
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