On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:31:10AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> Example: when I try >> >> :; mkdir $HOME/cannotread >> :; chmod -x $HOME/cannotread >> :; echo nonsense >$HOME/bin/cat >> :; chmod -x $HOME/bin/cat >> :; PATH=$HOME/cannotread:$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin >> :; cat /etc/fstab >> >> the shell uses /bin/cat without complaint. > > Yeah, but I think that the case Peff is worried about is: > > $ >~/bin/nosuch > $ nosuch > nosuch: Permission denied Just remembering the EACCES and reporting it when no alias exists would take care of that, no? In other words, this seems analogous to the example of a non-executable "cat" that is reported if no other cat exists but does not prevent /bin/cat from being run. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html