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Re: If there is '::' in $PATH, current directory(.) included.


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: If there is '::' in $PATH, current directory(.) included.
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:48:56 -0500

Stop sending html mail.

>         If there is '::' in $PATH, or ':' is at the begin of $PATH or at
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> the end of $PATH,
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>         current directory (.) is added to PATH LIST.
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>         We think it is better not including current directory, because it
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> is a security problem.
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Sorry, this will not change.  It's how shells have always behaved, and
what POSIX specifies.

-- 
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet)

Chet Ramey, CWRU    chet@po.CWRU.Edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/



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