In article <slrn79ond1.k9j.mason@coral.primenet.com.au>
mason@primenet.com.au writes:

(see http://mail-index.netbsd.org/mlist/netbsd-bugs/1999/01/13/0001.html)

> You've been fibbing about zsh:
>  ``source'' : as ``.'' but cwd is preprended to path

Oops. :-)

> POSIX (older draft) says:
...

Thank you very much for information.
I'm convinced this fix is the right thing.

By the way,

>  not be executable.  If no readable file is found, a noninteractive shell
>  shall abort; an interactive shell shall write a diagnostic message to

by my modification, a noninteractive shell won't abort on "not found."
I'll commit a little different change (using the error() function)
to conform the POSIX behavior.

Thanks,
--
ITOH, Yasufumi <yasufu-i@is.aist-nara.ac.jp>, <itohy@netbsd.org>

Revised patch:

diff -uF^[a-zA-Z_][a-z 	A-Z0-9_]*(.*[^;]$ main.c.orig main.c
--- main.c.orig	Mon Jan 11 23:04:51 1999
+++ main.c	Thu Jan 14 20:57:23 1999
@@ -315,22 +315,28 @@ readcmdfile(name)
 find_dot_file(basename)
 	char *basename;
 {
-	static char localname[FILENAME_MAX+1];
 	char *fullname;
 	char *path = pathval();
 	struct stat statb;
 
 	/* don't try this for absolute or relative paths */
-	if( strchr(basename, '/'))
+	if (strchr(basename, '/'))
 		return basename;
 
 	while ((fullname = padvance(&path, basename)) != NULL) {
-		strcpy(localname, fullname);
+		if ((stat(fullname, &statb) == 0) && S_ISREG(statb.st_mode)) {
+			/*
+			 * Don't bother freeing here, since it will
+			 * be freed in evalcommand() after return.
+			 */
+			return fullname;
+		}
 		stunalloc(fullname);
-		if ((stat(fullname, &statb) == 0) && S_ISREG(statb.st_mode))
-			return localname;
 	}
-	return basename;
+
+	/* not found in the PATH */
+	error("%s: not found", basename);
+	/* NOTREACHED */
 }
 
 int