Re: [PATCH v2] exec: Print absolute paths for command location queries
Herbert Xu <[email protected]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:56:35 +0800
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On Sat, Jun 13, 2026 at 02:52:29AM +0100, Harald van Dijk wrote: > > You're overlooking the "that are found using the PATH variable" from the > spec. Because you included a / in the command, it is not looked up from > PATH. Modifying your test to make sure PATH is used, we can see that bash > does do this in POSIX mode: > > $ bash -c 'cd /; PATH=bin command -v bash' > bin/bash > $ bash -o posix -c 'cd /; PATH=bin command -v bash' > /bin/bash But that's not what this patch does, is it? Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <[email protected]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt