On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:20:54AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > SUSv3> Some older implementations searched the current directory > > SUSv3> for the file, even if the value of PATH disallowed it. This > > SUSv3> behavior was omitted from this volume of IEEE Std > > SUSv3> 1003.1-2001 due to concerns about introducing the > > SUSv3> susceptibility to trojan horses that the user might be > > SUSv3> trying to avoid by leaving dot out of PATH . > > Ironically, the example just before the rationale depends exactly on > finding the file in the current directory. [...]
Indeed, and they forgot to quote variables, and they use "echo" which they recommand not to use. And at least the HTML version is missing a line break. Note that they don't say whether $PATH contains the current directory, so it's still a valid example. It's just a bit misleading, they should have used ". ./foobar" -- Stéphane
