On Friday 12 December 2003 03:43 pm, Kyle Faber said:
~ So what would happen? If ./ was in the root user's path, it would execute
~ this script instead of the traditional ls, thereby deleting everything in
~ root's directory, then printing the appropriate ls information. Root could
~ possibly be none the wiser.
It took a couple of minutes to absorb what you said there but it sank in.
Were you suppossed to put the ./ (as in the ./ls example) when UNIX was
originally written?
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