On Fri 04 Mar 2016 at 09:48:16 (+0100), David Kastrup wrote: > David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk> writes: > > > OK. This one is quite pernicious, but depends on having the : at the > > beginning of $PATH, which might happen if someone thought the syntax > > was meant to be, say, PATH=:patha:pathb:and-so-on: > > > > $ echo $PATH > > :/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin: > > This is a terrible PATH: it searches the local directory for executables > (which one should never ever ever do as it is a security hole you can > drive a truck through), and not once, but twice: before everything else > and afterwards _again_. > > > Your enemy puts cp somewhere like /tmp/cp, makes it world-executable, > > then waits for someone to cd /tmp and copy some files. > > I see that was the point you were trying to make, but it does not start > like that.
I do not know what you are referring to with "it" in "it does not start". So I'm afraid I don't see the point that your posting is trying to make. Cheers, David. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user