Re: PR/43639 CVS commit: src/bin/sh

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/43639; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: PR/43639 CVS commit: src/bin/sh
Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 14:33:34 +0700

     Date:        Tue, 31 May 2016 06:30:00 +0000 (UTC)
     From:        David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
     Message-ID:  <20160531063000.B15027AAC1%mollari.NetBSD.org@localhost>
 
   |  I'm not convinced it's worth worrying about.
 
 No, for named pipes I wouldn't be either, that is not a very likely use case.
 But Joerg's ". /dev/null" is more likely.  . /dev/tty could happen too I guess.
 
 So, it may be that only directories (as file types - maybe block devices too?)
 get ignored as candicates for . - and anything unreadable (currently the code
 finds the file, and if it ends up being unreadable, you lose - posix actually
 requires, as I read it, that we keep looking for a file that is readable -
 when searching $PATH of course, the path name case is easy.)
 
 kre