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George wrote:
> run a program by typing "foo", and the executable would be the
> one in my path, not the random file called `foo' in the current
> directory.
But this would not be a problem.
The only way you could execute a program called 'foo' in the current
directory is when the current directory is first in the path.
(or you could explicitly call ./foo, in which case argv[0] would contain a /)
If this were a problem the 'which' program would not work.
So as long as we search the path in the correct order, there
should be no problem here.
Martijn Versteegh