On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 08:31:14AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 09:14:41AM +0100, Mike Jonkmans wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 08:07:31PM -0500, Chet Ramey wrote: > > > On 11/9/23 11:17 AM, Mike Jonkmans wrote: > > > > On Thu, Nov 09, 2023 at 10:12:06PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote: > > > > > > > > On Ubuntu 22.04 `getconf path' returns /bin:/usr/bin > > > > and these are symlinked. > > > Then that's an issue to take up with Debian/Ubuntu, right? If they're > > > symlinked by the distro, then getconf PATH should only return one of them. > > > > Yes, that would be more efficient than a shell checking for symlinks in > > PATH. > > > > I'll try to convince them. > > Good luck with that. The problem with "usrmerge" in Debian is that > it's still optional. There are Debian infrastructure systems (virtual > machines especially) that don't use it. Therefore, simply changing > the static answer in confstr(3) across all Debian systems would be > incorrect. They would need to make it check the actual /bin to see > whether it's a symbolic link to usr/bin, and give an answer accordingly. > > It's a lot less work to just leave it as is.
Thanks for the warning. I'll leave them alone then. -- Regards, Mike Jonkmans
