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Re: [PATCH] Allow qualified filename (bar/foo) PATH searching.



>> I don't.  You're breaking an existing facility even for people who
>> choose ([p...]) to not use the new facility that came along with it.
> ??? If the PATH_SEARCH_OPT is not set or does not have "Q", there is
> absolutely no change.

Okay, then I misunderstood: I thought you said that post-change,
bar/foo would not work as before, that it had to be ./bar/foo:

> Everything allowed now (if I drop---as I will---my dot specification)
> remains possible after (except "bar/foo" being executed in current
> dir; this will have to be, explicitely, "./bar/foo", [...].

Presumably this was actually talking about the state with the
environment variable flag turned on; it read to me as if you were
talking about the case where it's not.

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