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 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
