Comment by Joker_vD

Comment by Joker_vD 2 days ago

How would knowing the full path help you anyway? It's either in "/usr/bin/sl", or "/usr/local/bin", or "~/.local/bin", now what?

By the way, believe it or not, POSIX compliance requires existence of only two directories (/dev and /tmp) and three files (/dev/console, /dev/null, and /dev/tty) on the system; everything else is completely optional, including existence of /bin, /etc, and /usr.

pasc1878 a day ago

Because you know what you installed and so which sl to use.

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Joker_vD a day ago

But the sl is not invoked by you. It is invoked by some npm module (a 5-times-removed dependency from any side) which hopes that either there is "sl" in the $PATH and it is the Sapling CLI, or there is no "sl" in the $PATH. This module can't use absolute paths because it does not know how the end user's system looks.

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- pasc1878 17 hours ago
  
  In that case it is a large security risk as well as it does not work as per the article
  
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