-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Andreas Schwab on 6/10/2008 3:20 AM: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | |> SUSv3> Some older implementations searched the current directory |> SUSv3> for the file, even if the value of PATH disallowed it.
Yes, bash has a bug here, to the point that even Autoconf documents bash's bug: http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Limitations-of-Builtins.html#Limitations-of-Builtins | | Ironically, the example just before the rationale depends exactly on | finding the file in the current directory. But I submitted a defect report on that very fact several months ago, and that example has been corrected in the 200x draft of POSIX: Search for "Number 164" in http://www.opengroup.org/austin/aardvark/latest/xcubug2.txt The corrected example reads: cat foobar foo=hello bar=world . ./foobar echo $foo $bar hello world - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkhOcbgACgkQ84KuGfSFAYBlVQCgzCznTSH1l4TtA+5mnbuoDfVE xZkAn1dISfpVL6/ZGMJJ0SCD8Kb3aVKG =KftW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
