[PATCH] Remove . from $PATH

Arnaud Lacombe lacombar@gmail.com
Fri Jul 30 01:36:00 GMT 2010


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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