Adding "." to @INC has security implications. It used to be a default but was removed in Perl v5.26.0.

Thanks for the information. I wasn't aware of the change...I thought it was still there for all versions of Perl. I am using v5.16.3 in this environment so "." is still included as is shown from perl -V 

@INC:
    /home/account/perl5/lib/perl5/5.16.3/x86_64-linux-thread-multi
    /home/account/perl5/lib/perl5/5.16.3
    /home/account/perl5/lib/perl5/x86_64-linux-thread-multi
    /home/account/perl5/lib/perl5
    /usr/local/lib64/perl5
    /usr/local/share/perl5
    /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl
    /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl
    /usr/lib64/perl5
    /usr/share/perl5
    .

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But this could potentially bite me locally where I have v5.32.1. The difference is definitely there... 
@INC:
    C:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib/MSWin32-x64-multi-thread
    C:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib
    C:/Strawberry/perl/vendor/lib
    C:/Strawberry/perl/lib

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In reply to Re^2: use lib "." by Bod
in thread use lib "." by Bod

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