Review Request 108711: kcmdatetimehelper: Hardcode PATH because $PATH is empty here.

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This review has been submitted with commit c517bbc175a3fbb09f13a8468a6987fdbc547d23 by Kevin Kofler to branch KDE/4.10.

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On Feb. 2, 2013, 8:27 a.m., Kevin Kofler wrote:
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> (Updated Feb. 2, 2013, 8:27 a.m.)
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> Review request for kde-workspace, Christoph Feck and Oswald Buddenhagen.
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> Description
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> Unfortunately, we cannot rely on the $PATH environment variable in KAuth helpers, because D-Bus activation clears it. So we have to use a reasonable default for the KStandardDirs::findExe search path, and actually use the return value of KStandardDirs::findExe in the calls to KProcess::execute.
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> This fixes things so hwclock and zic actually get found. See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=906854 . This got noticed in Fedora 18 because it does not always create /etc/localtime, so the fallback code operating on /etc/localtime triggered an error.
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> Diffs
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>   kcontrol/dateandtime/helper.cpp 5a946d8 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/108711/diff/
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> Testing
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> Builds against at least 4.10.0 and 4.9.5.
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> Works at runtime on Fedora 18, see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=906854#c12 (The reporter encountered another issue, apparently because ktimezoned also misbehaves when /etc/localtime is absent, but at least this particular issue is confirmed fixed.)
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> Thanks,
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> Kevin Kofler
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