[openbeos] Re: . or no .

  • From: Simen Graaten <simeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 03:54:32 +0200

On  9 May, Michael Phipps wrote:
> Personally, the first thing that I do on any Unix system that I use is to 
> change PATH so that '.' is the first thing searched. Because most of the 
> time I am developing, I want to run from where I am. Typing ./foo sucks, 
> IMHO. 2 extra keystrokes (and not even near home row) is a *PAIN*. But, 
> that is just IMHO.

Image typing ls in a shared directory where someone else has made an ls
binary of their own.

Putting it last in the searchorder or better yet, not in the searchorder 
makes better security.

--
Simen Graaten <simen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- I doubt, therefore I might be.

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