Re: Sanity check: RTVOBJD *LIBL/ABCMONRG RTNLIB(&LIBNAM), then CALL &LIBNAM/ABCMONRG???

Hi Dan (and Jack)

I don't see any use in this construction. Not even as a method to prevent, as Jack Woehr suggested, injection of a nasty alternative version of ABCMONRG in your library list. If that nasty version is higher in the library list RTVOBJD will find that and your program will CALL it anyway.


Kind regards,



Martijn van Breden

lead software architect





Sure there is such a scenario, Dan.

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I have *PGMR authority and I know your library list.
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I put a new ABCMONRG *PGM in a library higher in the list than the library where you keep your copy.

This was one of the first exploits in Unix ... put something naughty in a user's $PATH ahead of where they expect to find something of the same name.
One of the reasons no sophisticated Unix user has '.' in their $PATH.