Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 22:21:44 -0500 From: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: kudzu@dnai.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: su: kerberos: not in root's ACL. Message-ID: <19970819222144.16313@right.PCS> In-Reply-To: <1835.872037267@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Aug 08, 1997 at 05:34:27PM -0700 References: <33F9ECFC.4CF@dnai.com> <1835.872037267@time.cdrom.com>
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On Aug 08, 1997 at 05:34:27PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > However, what's unclear here is whether or not there is some > "historical" behavior in having a trailing : in one's path result in > an implicit inclusion of `.', something which is also a side-effect of > what happens here. Well, it isn't just historical, but is a property of every single shell I know; a null directory component is taken as an implicit '.'. This isn't just a trailing ':', but could also be a PATH like "/bin::/usr/bin". This behavior is also documented in the man page. Was there something else going on here that I missed? -- Jonathan
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