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From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@mail-in.net>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/lang/librep Makefile
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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>

-Maxim

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