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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: OFFTOPIC: configure vs. ./configure
From:       Alex Zepeda <garbanzo () hooked ! net>
Date:       1999-07-01 23:02:52
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On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Hasso Tepper wrote:

> No. Even with this you might be in trouble. There is a chance that
> admin will mistype some command (for example ls ) and there are files
> like la, ka, ld etc. in tmp dir ;)

Well then don't do these things as root.  A lot of things that might be
done as root (such as finding out what files exist in /tmp) really don't
need to be done as root, and especially on a single user machine, putting
'.' at the end of the path isn't that big of a deal.

- alex

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