Re: testsuite -C dir

[Eric Blake]

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According to Paolo Bonzini on 1/29/2008 7:19 AM:
|> | I didn't know source used the path.  Actually I thought the contrary...
|>
|> . has always used PATH; but in older shells, it also implicitly tacked .
|> onto its path search.  Since this was a security hole for trojan files,
|> POSIX forbids implicit `.'.  Thus, the only safe way to source a file in
|> the current directory is with anchored notation, since you can't rely on
|> `.' being in the user's PATH.
|
| Uhm, I have:
|
|   bonzinip$ echo echo foo > bar
|   bonzinip$ . bar
|   foo
|
| And . is not in the PATH:
|
|   bonzinip$ chmod +x bar
|   bonzinip$ bar
|   -bash: bar: command not found
|
| Then I try within scripts and behavior is the same:
|
|   bonzinip$ echo . bar > baz
|   bonzinip$ chmod +x baz
|   bonzinip$ sh --version
|   GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (powerpc-apple-darwin8.0)
|   bonzinip$ ./baz
|   foo
|   bonzinip$ POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 sh baz
|   foo
|
| Even with bash 3.2:
|
|   bonzinip$ /sw/bin/bash --version
|   GNU bash, version 3.2.9(1)-release (powerpc-apple-darwin8.10.0)
|   Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
|   bonzinip$ /sw/bin/bash baz
|   foo
|   bonzinip$ POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 /sw/bin/bash baz
|   foo
|
| /me is confused...

Hmm.  Bash explicitly documents that it behaves differently depending on
whether it is in POSIX mode - from bash-3.2/POSIX:

~ 28. The `.' and `source' builtins do not search the current directory
~     for the filename argument if it is not found by searching `PATH'.

It looks like we've discovered a bash bug.

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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