l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > John Darrington <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis: > >> Would it not be correct for guix to have >> >> confstr (_CS_PATH, buf, len); >> >> set the contents of buf with the bin directory of the currently >> installed coreutils package? >> >> For me, it returns /bin:/usr/bin which is not correct. > > Fixing it is a bit tricky because: > > 1. The meaning of this variable is ill-defined. Specifically, POSIX > says it “is the value for the PATH environment variable that finds > all standard utilities.” By “standard utilities”, surely they must > be talking of ‘guile’, ‘guix’, ‘herd’, and a couple of others, but > we can’t be sure. ;-) > > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/unistd.h.html > > 2. If CS_PATH refers to Coreutils, then that means that libc refers to > Coreutils, which is inconvenient at best. > > 3. We could set CS_PATH to /run/current-system/profile/bin but that > wouldn’t work on foreign distros. > > So I’m inclined to leave things as is.
I’ll close the bug if you don’t mind, but… > Did you find a situation where the invalid value was causing troubles? … I’m still interested in knowing this. :-) TIA, Ludo’.
