Re: hurd does NOT need /hurd

[tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)]

Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> writes:

> Why can't settrans fetch $ENV{'PATH'}, and squirrel that away?

There's no reason it can't.

But this would suck.  The path for shell commands should be a
different path from that for translators, because you can't just exec
a translator and expect anything sane to happen.  They are started up
in a special way, not just by exec.


Thomas


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