Re: weird behavior in the shell

[YONETANI Tomokazu <qhwt+dfly@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 09:40:52AM +0200, Sascha Wildner wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is a 'real' bug but I'm curious if anyone knows the 
> cause. Check this:
> 
> zoot# echo $PATH
> /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/pkg/bin:/usr/pkg/sbin:/usr/pkg/xorg/bin:/home/s/bin
> zoot# pwd
> /usr/src/sys/dev/disk/md
> zoot# .
> /usr/sbin/.: Permission denied.
> zoot# cd /
> zoot# .
> /usr/sbin/.: Permission denied.
> 
> In other words: The strange thing is that whereever I type . on the csh 
> prompt, I get the /usr/sbin/.: message regardless of what my current 
> directory is.
> 
> On a Solaris system I get ".: Permission denied." which is what I'd 
> expect rather.
> 
> So, can anyone enlighten me why DragonFly behaves like that?

I observed that the same thing happens on tcsh-6.12-2 on RedHat Linux 8.0;
the consistency is that it's always the third component in $PATH that is
prefixed to `.' in the error message.

Cheers.