Bug 1138835

Summary: getconf PATH returns non-directory "/bin"
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Siddhesh Poyarekar <spoyarek>
Component: glibcAssignee: Carlos O'Donell <codonell>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: ashankar, codonell, fweimer, jakub, jhunt, law, mcermak, mnewsome, pfrankli, qe-baseos-tools-bugs, spoyarek
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Last Closed: 2014-11-05 10:38:09 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Siddhesh Poyarekar 2014-09-05 18:20:08 UTC 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1124453 +++

Description of problem:

With RHEL7 merging /bin into /usr/bin and turning it into a symlink, but "getconf PATH" is still returning the "/bin" component:
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$ getconf PATH
/bin:/usr/bin
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And of course the library POSIX call confstr(_CS_PATH,...) is also returning the erroneous "/bin:/usr/bin" string.

It should now just be "/usr/bin".

--- Additional comment from Carlos O'Donell on 2014-07-29 10:44:04 EDT ---

We can fix this in Fedora and RHEL. It won't go upstream and it will be a distro specific customization for distributions that have acceted "Move To /usr".

Technically this is a hard-coded define in:
sysdeps/unix/confstr.h:#define	CS_PATH	"/bin:/usr/bin"

Easy enough to adjust, and that should fix getconf and confstr. QE should verify.