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Re: sh(1) and ksh(1) default PATH



On Sun, Aug 14, 2022 at 09:13:23 +0700, Robert Elz wrote:

> The normal default path for sh comes from sysctl user.cs_path

As you do the caretaking of our sh(1), please, can you drop a small
note in syspath() as to why it uses sysctl() directly instead of
confstr().  (I'm not sure I can properly summarize the sarcasm of
confstr comments and you probably know the lore behind this too anyway
:).

-uwe


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