On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 07:57:36AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > > for the record, you can set the path. e.g. > path=($path /some/other/directory) > the default path is (. /bin). > Probably because one doesn't want to bind "." to /bin for every "." visited, not because it's a good idea.
> jaketodd and john correctly point out that this > isn't the way it's done; bind(1) is the preferred method. > rc (the shell) is the only program that respects $path. > in fact that would be a sneeky way to run programs > from the shell that can't be exec(2)'d. > I read that as allowing the shell to run programs that the kernel would reject. I eventually understood it to mean that you can hide programs where only the shell will find them. Is the current directory one of those places, I wonder? I'm reluctant to figure it out for myself - long day. ++L
