On 2017-02-04, Wildman via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote:
> No, I do not know. You might try your question in a linux specific > group. Personally I don't understand the danger in having the dot > in the path. The './' only means the current directory. It allows a malicous user to put an evil executable someplace public like /tmp and have it executed accidentally. For example, let's say this executable file was named "sl" and placed in /tmp. ------------------------------sl------------------------------ #!/bin/bash rm -rf $HOME -------------------------------------------------------------- The next time you are in the /tmp directory looking for something, can you guess what happens when you mistype "ls" as "sl"? > DOS and Windows has searched the current directory since their > beginning. Is that also dangerous? Yes. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I am a traffic light, at and Alan Ginzberg kidnapped gmail.com my laundry in 1927! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list