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Re: Bug in executable completion: unable to handle .. it $PATH

On Jan 7,  8:09pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
}
} This is done explicitly in the code, but I have no idea why; it precedes
} the CVS archive.  The function isrelative() is only used by hashdir().

I believe it's a security thing, so that an inherited $PATH can't fool
someone into executing code from an unexpected place.
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