Re: Critical infrastructure update failing in TLU alone

> On Aug 21, 2026, at 21:09 , Bruno Voisin <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> So this is down to AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges being broken in the latest Golden Gate betas?

Yes, it looks like the child process spawned by AEWP no longer inherits PATH from the calling process. This has worked since at least 2008.

> And where does this _BASH_IMPLICIT_DASH_PEE come from?

Apple sets a variety of private shell variables. I don't understand exactly what it's for, but it is also set in Mojave, so it's not a problem. Running in the Xcode debugger sets even more variables.

2026-08-21 20:54:20 +0000 Notice tlu_ipctask[43310]	tlu_ipctask: Current environment
__AUTHORIZATION=auth 9
__CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING=0x0:0:0
__XCODE_BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR_PATHS=/Users/amaxwell/BuildProducts/Debug
__XPC_DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH=/Users/amaxwell/BuildProducts/Debug
__XPC_DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/Users/amaxwell/BuildProducts/Debug
_BASH_IMPLICIT_DASH_PEE=-p
Apple_PubSub_Socket_Render=/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.JeKTBm75e2/Render
CA_ASSERT_MAIN_THREAD_TRANSACTIONS=0
CA_DEBUG_TRANSACTIONS=0
CC_FOR_BUILD=no_compiler_found
COMMAND_MODE=unix2003
CURL_CA_BUNDLE=/Users/amaxwell/BuildProducts/Debug/TeX Live Utility.app/Contents/Resources/cacert.pem
DISPLAY=/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.gouLtSoG8a/org.xquartz:0
GPUProfilerEnabled=YES
HOME=/var/root
LOGNAME=amaxwell
MallocNanoZone=1
METAL_DEBUG_ERROR_MODE=0
METAL_DEVICE_WRAPPER_TYPE=1
NSUnbufferedIO=YES
OS_ACTIVITY_DT_MODE=YES
PATH=/Library/TeX/texbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/texbin
PWD=/Users/amaxwell/BuildProducts/Debug
SECURITYSESSIONID=186a7
SHELL=/bin/bash
SQLITE_ENABLE_THREAD_ASSERTIONS=1
SQLITE_EXEMPT_PATH_FROM_VNODE_GUARDS=/Users/amaxwell/Library/WebKit/Databases
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.fU4ZTFP4VT/Listeners
SWIFTUI_VIEW_DEBUG=287
TMPDIR=/var/folders/foo/bar/baz
USER=amaxwell
XPC_FLAGS=0x0
XPC_SERVICE_NAME=0

Adam