[bug #65804] ~/bin detected as relative path

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #65804 (group findutils):

[comment #2 comment #2:]
> It does appear that Bash performs tilde expansion on $PATH entries while
execvp (which is what the env program uses) does not:

This is one of the places where bash does not conform to POSIX by default. 

> $ env -u ENV -u BASH_ENV PATH='/bin:~/bin' bash --norc -c 'type
rebuild-findutils.sh'

Try that with POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 added and bash should report
"rebuild-findutils.sh: not found"



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