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From: dmt@ptsfa.PacBell.COM (Dave Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: ?????  HELP!!! what is wrong with this code? ???????
Message-ID: <4562@ptsfa.PacBell.COM>
Date: 19 Oct 88 17:17:21 GMT
References: <456@mrsvr.UUCP> <8271@alice.UUCP> <561@micropen> <10146@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: dmt@ptsfa.PacBell.COM (Dave Turner)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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In article <10146@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad Thad Floryan) writes:
>Doug Gwyn writes: "It is not wise to have the current directory early
>in the PATH directory list."
>
I'm not Doug either but occassionally I have new users who upon learning
about shell scripts create a file such as:

	tbl $* | nroff -mm ....

and name it "tbl" and chmod it to 755.

If the current directory is before /bin or /usr/bin this will cause lots
of processes to be forked off that will all do nothing for a while until
they die.

I won't add to the earlier comments about malicious users.

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Dave Turner	415/542-1299	{att,bellcore,sun,ames,pyramid}!pacbell!dmt