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Date:      Mon, 24 Nov 2003 01:31:19 -0600
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
To:        Richard Coleman <richardcoleman@mindspring.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unfortunate dynamic linking for everything
Message-ID:  <20031124073119.GE12248@over-yonder.net>
In-Reply-To: <3FC14245.6030509@mindspring.com>
References:  <62981.24.0.61.35.1069202574.squirrel@mail.yazzy.org> <200311190103.hAJ13Nlg000923@dyson.jdyson.com> <20031119015433.GN30485@roark.gnf.org> <3FBC2053.6040208@mindspring.com> <20031120022009.GB29530@dan.emsphone.com> <3FBC29EF.3030009@mindspring.com> <3FBC50DB.3000002@acm.org> <20031123225117.GA24696@dragon.nuxi.com> <3FC14245.6030509@mindspring.com>

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On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 06:27:01PM -0500 I heard the voice of
Richard Coleman, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> You would need to make sure that startup scripts never use tilde 
> expansion.  I'm not sure how common that is with RCNG.

Not just the startup scripts, but ANY script.  I dare say there's a long,
long list of scripts that use ~-expansion, to say nothing of the
homegrown ones we all have working quietly and forgotten for years.


-- 
Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)   |  fullermd@over-yonder.net
Systems/Network Administrator |  http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/

"The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I
      haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"



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