NAME
paths
—
default system paths
SYNOPSIS
#include
<paths.h>
DESCRIPTION
The<paths.h>
header defines
some default paths used in NetBSD. All defined
constants are prefixed with _PATH
. 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
The <paths.h>
header is specific to NetBSD.