PATHS(3)

📦 version 11.0, in nixpkgs unstable

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to PATHS(3) — the Library Functions Manual page for paths, aka your little guide to the default system paths 💅✨

paths — default system paths 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <paths.h>

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so the <paths.h> header defines some default paths used in NetBSD, and honestly? it's giving quiet-but-essential icon behavior 👑

all the defined constants are prefixed with _PATH, no cap. the constants include:

  • the default user search path set by login(1) and associated utilities such as rshd(8) — this is defined by _PATH_DEFPATH and includes directories such as /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin 🌸
  • default paths for some utilities and device nodes — examples include such paths as /dev/null (_PATH_DEVNULL), /dev/mem (_PATH_MEM), and /etc/nologin (_PATH_NOLOGIN), among others 🦋
  • paths for some default directories such as /dev (_PATH_DEV) and /tmp (_PATH_TMP) as well as paths for some miscellaneous utilities such as csh(1), /bin/csh (_PATH_CSHELL) 💖

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

⚠️ CAVEATS ⚠️

bestie, hear me: the <paths.h> header is specific to NetBSD 😭💀 like, it's not out here being all portable and universal — that's the caveat, periodt.

mwah 💋 this page came from source/version Debian, dated April 8, 2011, and it's the PATHS(3) page — sign-off slayed, bye bestie 🎀✨🫶

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