Bug 1124453 – getconf PATH returns non-directory "/bin"

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Bug 1124453 - getconf PATH returns non-directory "/bin"

Summary:	getconf PATH returns non-directory "/bin"

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	glibc (Show other bugs)
Sub Component:
Version:	7.0
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	unspecified Severity medium
Target Milestone:	rc
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Assigned To:	Siddhesh Poyarekar
QA Contact:	Arjun Shankar
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Blocks:	1138835
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Reported:	2014-07-29 10:13 EDT by Jacob Hunt
Modified:	2016-11-24 07:15 EST (History)
CC List:	6 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	glibc-2.17-61.el7
Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Clones:	1138835 (view as bug list)
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Last Closed:	2015-03-05 02:17:47 EST
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2015:0327	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Moderate: glibc security and bug fix update	2015-03-05 07:10:38 EST

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Description Jacob Hunt 2014-07-29 10:13:52 EDT

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".

Comment 1 Carlos O'Donell 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.

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2015-03-05 02:17:47 EST

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0327.html

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