On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 12:19:52PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 02 Apr 2015 10:20, Karel Zak wrote:
> > If I good remember then the reason is that the helpers does not have
> > to be installed in standard PATH. Well, you're author of this thing
> > :-)
>
> i wrote the code to make it a configure option, but the actual behavior predates
> me. i'm interested more in the behavior, not the exact configure option.
So, the basis question is if we really need to support non-standard
paths for the helpers. IMHO it's unnecessary legacy and I don't see a
problem to drop this feature and require $PATH, and for critical
things like fsck fallback to /sbin if $PATH is undefined.
Comments?
> looks like mkfs added it during the 2.2->2.5 transition, but otherwise no
> details in the bundled NEWS that i saw. oh well.
mkfs is deprecated, the right way is to call directly mkfs.<type>.
> mount makes sense as it's set*id and we can't trust users to not be evil :)
It does not execute anything with root rights, but yes, hardcoded
paths make sense there (just to avoid complexity and external
dependencies on environment).
Karel
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