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Date:      Fri, 08 Mar 1996 16:38:52 -0800
From:      Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com>
To:        Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: _PATH_* 
Message-ID:  <199603090038.QAA03842@precipice.shockwave.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 07 Mar 1996 23:33:38 %2B0100." <199603072233.XAA01854@campa.panke.de> 

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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.

  From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
  Subject: _PATH_*
  
  /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



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