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From: jcc@wa6iyh.ampr.org (Jim Cotillier)
Subject: Re: Can't get `.' off of root's path
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Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 23:07:48 -0800 (PST)
Cc: jcc@wa6iyh.ampr.org (Jim Cotillier)
In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970128234621.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jan 28, 97 11:46:21 pm
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> 
> As Chuck Robey wrote:
> 
> > Perhaps, Joerg, but this is occurring on my newly booted smp machine, with
> > roots login, not even using su (on the console).
> 
> That's weird.  Are you sure it's not a feature of your shell?  Grep
> through the login source code, i don't find the word `relative' there.
> 
> -- 
> cheers, J"org
> 

Yes, it's line 628 in csh.c in the -current tree as of last Saturday...

...
    /*
     * i+2 where i is the number of colons in the path. There are i+1
     * directories in the path plus we need room for a zero terminator.
     */
    pv = (Char **) xcalloc((size_t) (i + 2), sizeof(Char **));
    dp = cp;
    i = 0;
    if (*dp)
	for (;;) {
	    if ((c = *dp) == ':' || c == 0) {
		*dp = 0;
		if (*cp != '/' && (euid == 0 || uid == 0) &&
		    (intact || intty && isatty(SHOUT)))
		    (void) fprintf(csherr,
	    "Warning: imported path contains relative components\n");
		pv[i++] = Strsave(*cp ? cp : STRdot);
		if (c) {
		    cp = dp + 1;
		    *dp = ':';
		}
		else
		    break;
	    }
	    dp++;
	}
    pv[i] = 0;
    set1(STRpath, pv, &shvhed);
}
...

This machine is always at -current, built every Saturday night western USA
time on the -current tree.

csh.c was hit a few weeks ago, and I have been getting this message since
then on a straight root login.  My root environment is the old vanilla:

#	$Id: dot.cshrc,v 1.12 1994/10/27 05:26:59 phk Exp $
#
...
set path=(/sbin /usr/sbin /bin /usr/bin /usr/local/bin /usr/X11R6/bin)
...

I made no changes to any *rc scripts.

Just for reference.
-JC