Casper.Dik at Sun.COM writes: > >I'm okay if that is the case, I just want to know of this case is > >setting new case law. > > > I thought we never used the full pathnames and that setting $PATH was > the only supported way?
No, that's not true. This has been discussed here before: we have always supported "cherry-picking" of standards-conformant utilities from outside of the standards-conformant environment -- in part because of the annoying divergence in several cases (including, for example, 'id'). The only supported way of getting a fully conformant environment is by setting $PATH correctly, but that doesn't mean you can't use particular applications independently. Though it'd be nice to drain out those directories entirely, leaving behind a symlink seems to me to be a cheap way of making sure that we don't introduce extra breakage. -- James Carlson, KISS Network <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
