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Bala S. Guthy bguthy at amazon.eecs.umich.edu
Fri Feb 22 11:40:10 AEST 1991


Hello, I remember when I first learnt Unix, the instructor said,
that "."  should never be the first thing in one's $path. It had
something to do with a security hole in Unix. Does anyone know
what and if there is any disadvantage to having "." as the first
entry in $path.

Thank you.

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| Bala S. Guthy   aktca  bguthy at eecs.umich.edu                      |
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