From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Jul 6 23:53:13 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id XAA01195 for bugs-outgoing; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 23:53:13 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA01166 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 23:53:03 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA20078; Fri, 7 Jul 1995 08:53:06 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA14917; Fri, 7 Jul 1995 08:53:05 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id HAA12888; Fri, 7 Jul 1995 07:55:40 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199507070555.HAA12888@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: bin/598: csh 'imported path' warning makes it unusable with vi To: gordon@sneaky.lonestar.org Date: Fri, 7 Jul 1995 07:55:40 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199507070130.SAA11879@freefall.cdrom.com> from "gordon@sneaky.lonestar.org" at Jul 6, 95 06:30:01 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 819 Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As gordon@sneaky.lonestar.org wrote: > > > While csh's warning 'warning: imported path contains > relative components' is accurate (when you su to root > and inherit a path containing '.' as the last component, > and yes, I'll grant this has security problems, but many > package makefiles won't work without it, and you have to be > root to install), it cripples use of vi due to the message > getting into filename expansions and edit buffers. Not sure what other people think about it, but i'd rather suggest fixing the makefiles and removing the trailing dot from the path. The only way to force people to avoid certain things is to annoy them (see gets()). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)