On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 10:22:43PM +0200, Ludovic Court??s wrote: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court??s) skribis: > John Darrington 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??? OK > Did you find a situation where the invalid value was causing troubles? ??? I???m still interested in knowing this. :-) I didn't find a technical trouble. Only political ones. TIA, Ludo???. -- Avoid eavesdropping. Send strong encryted email. PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key.