/snap/bin not in $PATH on desktop

[Alejandro Vera]

So how do you  resolve the problem of using multiple apps? I am developing
a code editor. But i need a code beautifier. How can I call a external
beautifier from my snap?


On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Zygmunt Krynicki <
zygmunt.krynicki at canonical.com> wrote:

>
> > On 7 Sep 2016, at 13:16, Sylvain Pineau <sylvain.pineau at canonical.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I noticed that I was not able to call other snap commands from my own
> snap on my desktop.
> > So I tested what was defined using the hello-world.env command.
> >
> > On desktop (with ubuntu-core 16.04.1 rev 352)
> >
> > $ hello-world.env | grep ^PATH=
> > PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
> >
> > But on a true snappy system (with ubuntu-core 16.04.1 rev 453), I get:
> >
> > $ hello-world.env | grep ^PATH=
> > PATH=/home/ubuntu/bin:/home/ubuntu/.local/bin:/usr/local/
> sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/
> games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin
> >
> > Is there any reason to not have /snap/bin as part of the $PATH available
> to snap commands?
>
> Snaps cannot execute other snaps. The PATH difference is caused by how
> snap-confine behaves when it runs on classic but in general even if you
> used an absolute path you would not be able to start any other applications
> from /snap/bin. Allowing this would create an implicit interface
> (dependency between your snap and some other, perhaps third party, snap).
>
> If you need access to executables that you control you can use the content
> interface to bind mount another snap into your own snap and execute those
> commands directly, with the same security profile as the running
> application.
>
> Best regards
> ZK
>
>
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Alejandro Vera
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