Detect empty $PATH environmental var
Summary:
By default, PHP-FMP (an alternate PHP FCGI SAPI) cleans the entire environment
for child processes. This means we have no $PATH.
This causes some confusing failures for reasons I don't fully understand. If you
do these things:
exec_manual('env'); exec_manual('export');
...they show no $PATH, as expected. If you do this:
exec_manual('echo $PATH');
...it shows a path. And this works (i.e., it finds the executable):
exec_manual('ls');
...but this fails (it says "no ls in ((null))"):
exec_manual('which ls');
So, basically, the sh -c process itself gets a default PATH somehow, but its
children don't. I don't realllly get why this happens, but clearly an empty
$PATH is a misconfiguration, and can easily be remedied.
See discussion here: https://github.com/facebook/libphutil/issues/7
Test Plan: Applied patch to Centos6 + nginx + PHP-FPM machine, ran setup, the
configuration issue was detected and I was given information on resolving it.
Reviewers: btrahan, jungejason
Reviewed By: btrahan
CC: aran
Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D1413