Re: Tilde expansion during command search

[Chet Ramey]

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On 8/1/14, 11:26 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 08/01/2014 07:53 AM, Dan Douglas wrote:
> 
>>> how so ?  execvp doesn't do tilde expansion.  only the shell does.
>>
>> That's the problem. A program using execvp should be able to expect the same 
>> result as that of the shell for a given PATH value. Because of this, it 
>> can't, unless exec has the same implementation.
>>
>>> and it does it once at assignment.
>>
>> The example from my first post demonstrates that Bash substitutes a literal 
>> tilde in PATH during the actual path search before executing a command, in 
>> addition to during assignments and word expansions.
> 
> And that bash is the odd one out in comparison to all other shells.  I
> think bash is buggy for performing tilde expansion during PATH lookup
> for literal tildes contained in PATH, because no other shell does it,
> and POSIX does not specify that it would happen.

Again: if it were a real problem, you'd think it would have come up more
often in the past 25 years since it was implemented.

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