????? HELP!!! what is wrong with this code? ???????

[Dave Turner]

In article <10146 at cup.portal.com> thad at cup.portal.com (Thad Thad Floryan) writes:
>Doug Gwyn writes: "It is not wise to have the current directory early
>in the PATH directory list."
>
I'm not Doug either but occassionally I have new users who upon learning
about shell scripts create a file such as:

	tbl $* | nroff -mm ....

and name it "tbl" and chmod it to 755.

If the current directory is before /bin or /usr/bin this will cause lots
of processes to be forked off that will all do nothing for a while until
they die.

I won't add to the earlier comments about malicious users.

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