From: Daniel Feiglin (dilogsys_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Sun 23 Feb 2003 - 11:23:38 IST
Oron Peled wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 17:03:42 +0200
> Shaul Karl <shaulka_at_bezeqint.net> wrote:
>
>
>>On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 03:14:44PM +0200, Daniel Feiglin wrote:
>>
>>>You get a clean compile/link, but running test does nothing!
>>
>> A name space collision with bash's internal command?
>
>
> Obviously! This also point to a bad habbit:
> Daniel you have '.' in your path!!!
True, but only on a regular user account, never as root.
>
> Otherwise you couldn't run programs from an arbitrary current
> directory just by typing their name and you would get used to:
> ./test
> which always runs what you want (you can try other fun names
> like ./cd ./set ./if etc.)
>
> Another related issue. I hope nobody don't use '.' in your path
> as root -- this is suicidal in terms of security.
>
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