In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 12/28/2007
at 03:55 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Which was a grievous and irresponsible and unnecessary design blunder.
No.
>Who benefits from this special treatment of PATH=/dev/null?
What special treatment?
>It only adds confusion by making the behavior of PATH=/dev/null
>different from the behavior of PATH=/./dev/null and from the behavior of
>PATH=[any symbolic link to /dev/null].
No.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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