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Re: [PATCH] Remove . from $PATH

From: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar at gmail dot com>
To: Johannes Stezenbach <js at sig21 dot net>
Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann dot morin dot 1998 at anciens dot enib dot fr>, crossgcc at sourceware dot org
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:36:27 -0400
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove . from $PATH
References: <20100729151916.GA29454@sig21.net> <201007291921.49553.yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> <20100729180657.GA14736@sig21.net>

Hi,

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net> wrote:
> Yeah, I have to admit it's a bit over-engineered, but my goal
> was to catch paths like "./" or "bin" (intead of "~/bin") etc.
> Of course one could argue that people who have gunk in their PATH
> shoot themselves in the foot and deserve it, however they
> might then send a useless bug report.
>
Having the current directory in PATH is perfectly valid, said POSIX.
There is no foot shooting involved, just imperfect software behaving
badly on corner cases.

 - Arnaud

ps: has this issue been reported to autotools folks ?

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