After reading the responses here. I went back to the Windows box I'm using (my Linux test box has been offline for almost two years now :( ). Yeah, . is indeed at the end of that list.

So I went back and removed the lib "./" decleration. And voila! My problem didn't come back. Ggrrrrrr!

I have no idea what was wrong before. Nor why I can't recreate the problem at this hour. I'm tired, I'm going to bed. This has been a horrible day for me. I spent all day fussing with existing flaky code and none actually writing new code. Might be time to repair the Linux box and get it running again.

So I guess the answer to my question: There is probably minimal security risk, it's there by default. Though I concure with hbo that I feel more comfortable with an absolute path. I just hate changing path information when I move the script from the Windows box to the UNIX box. Howver, I don't think I agree with him about . being a security risk with bogus modules place in the CWD. If someone breaks into the system and is able to place bogus modules in the CWD, I seriously doubt that not having . in the @INC would make any sort of difference. That's just my thinking though. I could be way wrong about that logic train.

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In reply to Re: use lib './' security safe? by SavannahLion
in thread use lib './' security safe? by SavannahLion

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