Re: [PATCH 2/2] git: continue alias lookup on EACCES errors
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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
- Date
- Mar 28, 2012, 18:40 UTC
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- <20120328184014.GA8982@burratino>
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On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:31:10AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
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>> 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.