Thank you this is very illuminating and makes it clear that my naive
one-line fix would be inappropriate. Given the current state of
affairs there is really no good reason for PATH to ever be unset or
set to empty vs. explicitly set to '.', right? So might be worth
spelling out in the docs that thi
Date:Thu, 09 Mar 2023 09:26:18 +0100
From:Andreas Schwab
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| But an unset PATH is *not* the same as PATH=.
That might be true, but POSIX says:
If PATH is unset or is set to null, or if a path prefix in PATH
contains a character ('%'), t
On Mär 08 2023, Grisha Levit wrote:
> I think it might make sense to change code that looks at the value of
> PATH to explicitly treat an empty value as `.' so that all such
> behavior is consistent.
But an unset PATH is *not* the same as PATH=.
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