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Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/lang/librep Makefile
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Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 28 May 2001 14:21:23 -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 05:41:39AM -0700, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> > > sobomax     2001/05/28 05:41:39 PDT
> > >
> > >   Modified files:
> > >     lang/librep          Makefile
> > >   Log:
> > >   Remove 755 ${WRKSRC}/test script to prevent user from footshooting if for some
> > >   strange reason he/she has `./' before `/bin' in his/her PATH. Surprisingly,
> > >   there are *many* such users.
> >
> > IMO, we shouldn't be encouraging them.
> 
> Indeed, but unfortunately otherwise they will keep spamming us with
> bug reports, thus we have to choose from two evils...
> 
> > I (1/2-serious) think we
> > should turn the test script into something that prints a big warning
> > about insecurity using figlet :-)
> 
> ;)
> 
> <50% serious mode>
> Patches accepted. Perhaps we should "fix" all popular shells instead,
> which would solve all similar problems out there.
> </50% serious mode>

	Or, we should kill the person who violated the first rule of shell
programming, NEVER name a script "test".

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