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authorasmodai <asmodai@FreeBSD.org>2000-10-30 13:39:23 +0000
committerasmodai <asmodai@FreeBSD.org>2000-10-30 13:39:23 +0000
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Correct incorrect information about the PATH used for exec*() calls.
PR: 21990 Partially submitted by: Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/gen')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/gen/exec.311
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/exec.3 b/lib/libc/gen/exec.3
index 3399d42..e035640 100644
--- a/lib/libc/gen/exec.3
+++ b/lib/libc/gen/exec.3
@@ -144,10 +144,13 @@ character.
The search path is the path specified in the environment by
.Dq Ev PATH
variable.
-If this variable isn't specified, the default path
-.Dq Ev /bin:/usr/bin:
-is
-used.
+If this variable isn't specified,
+the default path is set according to the
+.Dv _PATH_DEFPATH
+definition in
+.Aq paths.h ,
+which is set to
+.Dq Ev /usr/bin:/bin .
In addition, certain errors are treated specially.
.Pp
If an error is ambiguous (for simplicity, we shall consider all
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