Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb > Sebastian 'lunar' Wiesner wrote: > >>>>> no, I'm showing that a local file marked as executable overrides a >>>>> shared one, even if the local file isn't actually an executable. > >>> >>>> Only if you have your system set up badly. The current directory >>>> should not be in the search path, and it especially shouldn't have >>>> higher priority than the regular bin locations. > >> >>> and the award for completely missing the context of this subthread >>> goes to... >> >> Nevertheless his comment was absolutely correct... > > nope. a Unix system uses the same flag to determine if a file is > executable no matter how I've set up my path.
Paul didn't even mention the word "executable". He was referring to completely different thing: The fact, that whether a local executable overrides a shared on, is matter of how you set your PATH. The local file would be executable, whether it is in the PATH or not... -- Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters. (Rosa Luxemburg) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list