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. Did you find a situation where the invalid value was causing troubles? Thanks, Ludo’.