F11: Bug in sh-4.0 source build-in command

[Andreas Schwab]

Dario Lesca <d.lesca at solinos.it> writes:

> Il giorno lun, 03/08/2009 alle 20.55 +0200, Michal Schmidt ha scritto:
>> Not a bug. You're running bash in POSIX mode (probably you ran "sh").
>> In POSIX mode the current directory is not searched by the source
>> command. This is documented in the manpage.
>
> IMHO, this is a Bug.

>From <http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#dot>:

RATIONALE
    Some older implementations searched the current directory for the
    file, even if the value of PATH disallowed it. This behavior was
    omitted from this volume of POSIX.1-2008 due to concerns about
    introducing the susceptibility to trojan horses that the user might
    be trying to avoid by leaving dot out of PATH.

Andreas.

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