Re: Command execution

[Chris Siebenmann <cks>]

[trapping regular absolute program names with function names:]
| This was exactly what I wanted to do.  One of my friends likes to run a
| couple of obnoxious programs on my workstation when he drops by to
| visit and I'm not in the office.

 This sounds like a social problem, not a software problem; if it's
really that bad, patch your own version of rc a bit. I wouldn't want
to twist the main rc version to do this; if you invoke the absolute
path name, you *mean* the absolute path name.

 'x/y' vs. './x/y' has been hashed out before in the mailing list;
check the archives. I belive Pike just considered it the right
approach. I use it for the same sort of things that David Moore does;
to keep infrequently-used stuff off my path.

- cks