On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 10:42:21AM -0800, patrick keshishian wrote:
> Just throwing this out there: will this program ever get
> installed with filename shorter than ch{grp,mod,own,flags}?

No.

It's still a form of input validation.  Therefore, it should be done.
And a user can create such a link (even though behavior is pretty
obfuscated then).

$ cd ~/bin
$ which x
which: x: Command not found.
$ ln -s /bin/chmod x
$ x
usage: x [-h] [-R [-H | -L | -P]] group file ...
$ _


Tobias

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