Subject: Why is dot in the PATH?
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@panix.com>
List: current-users
Date: 11/02/1994 04:35:43 
Why does /bin/sh use a default PATH of :/bin:/usr/bin?

(/usr/src/bin/sh/var.c, line 99)

If we're going to print notices like "warning: running as root
with . in PATH", it seems a little silly to ship /bin/sh that
way... Does anything actually depend upon that behavior?

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John Hawkinson
jhawk@panix.com