Yes, I'd say it's largely a historical mistake, and
we mostly ignore it, but it's there.

Quoth Jacob Moody <[email protected]>:
> That's not true, rc has a $path, you can see for yourself:
> 
> cpu% echo $path
> /bin .
> 
> Most stuff does just use /bin, but for convenience rc also includes the cwd 
> in $path.
> 
> On 7/24/25 15:54, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote:
> > There is no concept of "path" in 9front/Plan9 - not needed due to union 
> > mounts.
> > 
> > You just mount additional directories on top of /bin to "merge" them at 
> > one location.
> > 
> > 
> > On 7/23/25 18:12, [email protected] wrote:
> >> on 9front, I think the default path is (/bin .), but I
> >> think it's worth being a bit more robust. Done.
> >>
> >> Quoth Kyohei Kadota via 9fans <[email protected]>:
> >>> Hi, David.
> >>>
> >>> I found, on /sys/src/cmd/git, mk clean exits with an usage error. For 
> >>> example:
> >>>
> >>> % cd /sys/src/cmd/git
> >>> % mk clean
> >>> rm -f *.[568ijqv] *.a[568ijqv] y.tab.? lex.yy.c y.debug y.output
> >>> [568ijqv].??* conf get fs log query repack save send serve walk
> >>> $CLEANFILES
> >>> usage: add [-r :remove] file ...
> >>> mk: rm -f *.[568ijqv] ... : exit status=rc 3855: usage 3855: usage
> >>>
> >>> There is /sys/src/cmd/git/rm and it's marked as executable so mk may
> >>> refer to that.
> >>>
> >>> Thus I would you like to merge the patch below. Is it possible to merge?
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/sys/src/cmd/git/mkfile b/sys/src/cmd/git/mkfile
> >>> --- a/sys/src/cmd/git/mkfile
> >>> +++ b/sys/src/cmd/git/mkfile
> >>> @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
> >>>   </$objtype/mkfile
> >>> +path=/bin
> >>>
> >>> BIN=/$objtype/bin/git
> >>> TARG=\
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