patch: allow default PATH extension at build time

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Friday 07 September 2007 16:35, Paul Fox wrote:
> this is a pretty non-intrusive patch.  no code change, no
> additional bytes!  :-)
> 
> on our product(s), we try and keep locally developed executables
> in a bin directory that is separate from the things that
> traditionally come with a linux distribution.  this is for our
> own convenience, and sanity.  but we want all system programs,
> daemons, etc, to be able to get at those local executables
> easily -- this is an embedded system, after all.  it's
> inconvenient to externally augment the PATH of things started
> directly from init, or at boot time, etc, so this patch allows
> appending extra text to the default system PATH that's provided
> by init (and by the shell).  (this patch is a lot smaller than it
> used to be, because all instances of the default PATH have
> recently been consolidated to messages.c -- thanks, vda.)

Applied already, thanks!
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vda