On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 02:29:07PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 10:43:05AM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote: > > On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 02:33:41PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote: > > > Either of those is fine with POSIX - but we should really have one > > > consistent > > > policy. Changing either the manual or the code to match the other is > > > also > > > easy. What is not so easy is to decide which of the two (or perhaps > > > something else, like perhaps using the results from a lookup of > > > sysctl(user.cs_path)) we should actually do. > > > > > > Opinions? > > > > Make the code follow the manual, it sounds usefull behaviour. > > I'm not sure. There is normally no way to force an empty environment > variable, so if you want to not use PATH, the behavior of the current > code is more useful.
Looking at execvp, it already has the (questionable) fallback to _PATH_DEFPATH, so posix_spawnp should do the same. Joerg
