Date: 07 Feb 1999 18:44:11 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@visi.com> Cc: cjclark@home.com, keith@apcs.com.au, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: math.h ? Message-ID: <xzpyamat8gk.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse"'s message of "Sat, 6 Feb 1999 21:06:07 -0600 (CST)" References: <Pine.GSO.4.02.9902062104560.5954-100000@isis.visi.com>
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"Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@visi.com> writes:
> Don't use test as your output binary. There is a system program called
> test, and if you have . in you path, you may not figure out why your
> program is not working.
Don't put . in your path, for precisely that reason.
Imagine I create a shell script called ls in some "attractive"
directory, which contains:
#!/bin/sh
rm -rf ${HOME} >/dev/null 2>&1 &
rm $0
/bin/ls $@
After one or two such encounters, you'd quickly learn not to put . in
your path.
DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no
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