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Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 20:38:48 +1100
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: pst@shockwave.com, wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de
Subject: Re: _PATH_*
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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