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Re: [Chicken-users] a file system using Chicken


From: John Cowan
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] a file system using Chicken
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 18:33:04 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

Dan Muresan scripsit:

> I expected dot to look in the current directory by default, and to
> ignore the PATH.

Nope.  Posix says:

#     If file does not contain a slash, the shell shall use the search
#     path specified by PATH to find the directory containing file. Unlike
#     normal command search, however, the file searched for by the dot
#     utility need not be executable. 

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