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To: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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Subject: Re: _PATH_* 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 07 Mar 1996 23:33:38 +0100."
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Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1996 16:38:52 -0800
From: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com>
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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