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From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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/usr/include/paths.h
/* Default search path. */
#define	_PATH_DEFPATH	"/usr/bin:/bin"

Why is /usr/bin before /bin?


/* All standard utilities path. */
#define	_PATH_STDPATH \
	"/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:"

Same. And why the colon?

Wolfram