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gwyn at smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
> In article <1991Feb22.004010.13359 at zip.eecs.umich.edu> bguthy at amazon.eecs.umich.edu (Bala S. Guthy) writes:
>>"."  should never be the first thing in one's $path. It had
>>something to do with a security hole in Unix.
>
> It's not a "security hole in UNIX", it's just an unwise policy

Which begs the question: why do many (most?) Unix's start their default PATH
with ":"?  This is effectively the same as starting PATH with ".".


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