Distribution of security fixes

Posted Sep 6, 2004 3:10 UTC (Mon) by zone (guest, #3633)
In reply to: Distribution of security fixes by rwmj
Parent article: Distribution of security fixes

I was about to point out that this is a requirement of SUS, but it turns out even SUSv2 regards this as a legacy feature. From SUSv3:

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A zero-length prefix is a legacy feature that indicates the current working directory. It appears as two adjacent colons ( "::" ), as an initial colon preceding the rest of the list, or as a trailing colon following the rest of the list. A strictly conforming application shall use an actual pathname (such as .) to represent the current working directory in PATH .
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