Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!rbj From: rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim Cottrell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer Subject: Re: how to put a program into .plan file Message-ID: <107255@uunet.UU.NET> Date: 4 Oct 90 03:08:16 GMT References: <8715@pitt.UUCP> <1990Oct2.031551.11562@agate.berkeley.edu> <2534@polari.UUCP> Organization: UUNET Communications Services, Falls Church, VA Lines: 37 In article <2534@polari.UUCP> 6sigma2@polari.UUCP (Brian Matthews) writes: >|An even better snoop catcher is to put an executable 'ls' in your directory. > >No UNIX hacker who deserves the name has . or an empty field in their >path. >-- >Brian L. Matthews blm@6sceng.UUCP I just checked mimsy. Chris Torek has `.' last in his path. On our machine, the following people have `.' first: Rick Adams Brandon Allbery Robert Elz (kre) Dan Heller (argv) The following people have `.' last: Rich Salz (rsalz) Eric Allman John Quarterman (jsq) Peter Honeyman Kirk McKusick Guy Harris I put `.' first as well as most of the other staff here. I suppose the reason is that, in keeping with the original UNIX philosophy, we value convenience over security. Those who are slighty more cautious (esp if they live on university machines :-) put `.' last. I suppose we could all live without `.' in our path easily enuf. Perhaps it is habit and optimism that keep it there. -- Root Boy Jim Cottrell