base-files: remove ending colon from default $PATH for root user

now the PATH for root user defined in a problematic way
    PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:

from eglibc:
    /* Two adjacent colons, or a colon at the beginning or the end
       of `PATH' means to search the current directory.  */

that means current directory is always searched as the last path,
which could generate undesired behavior.

One example is found in LTP cron_deny01 test, which always complains
    "sh: cron_deny01 not found"

cron_deny01 is a shell script which setups the initial test preparation
and then invokes itself for real test under a different user:
    su $TEST_USER1 -c "$0"

'su' doesn't inherit PATH into the sub-shell, and thus $0 has to
be an absolute path to have right script found.

ltp appends the path of cron_deny01 to $PATH before running the test:
    export PATH="${PATH}:${LTPROOT}/testcases/bin"

In ideal way "${LTPROOT}/testcases/bin/cron_deny01" is found and becomes
$0, which works well.

However due to the ending colon in original PATH:
    PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin::${LTPROOT}/testcases/bin
$0 becomes 'cron_deny01' w/o leading path which makes sub-shell under 'su'
failed to locate cron_deny01.

remove ending colon then fixes this problem.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
This commit is contained in:
Kevin Tian
2011-01-26 16:28:45 +08:00
committed by Richard Purdie
parent 1b26bce967
commit abc25cb885
2 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions

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@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ if [ ! -e /etc/localtime ]; then
fi
if [ "$HOME" = "/home/root" ]; then
PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:
PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
fi
if [ "$PS1" ]; then
# works for bash and ash (no other shells known to be in use here)

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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Miscellaneous files for the base system."
DESCRIPTION = "The base-files package creates the basic system directory structure and provides a small set of key configuration files for the system."
SECTION = "base"
PRIORITY = "required"
PR = "r66"
PR = "r67"
LICENSE = "GPLv2"
LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://licenses/GPL-2;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
SRC_URI = "file://rotation \