+ /* --- Now build the pathname and check it --- *
+ *
+ * Issue: user can take advantage of these privileges to decide whether
+ * a program with a given name exists. I'm not sure that's
+ * particularly significant: it only works on regular files with
+ * execute permissions, and if you're relying on the names of these
+ * being secret to keep your security up, then you're doing something
+ * deeply wrong anyway. On the other hand, it's useful to allow people
+ * to be able to execute programs and scripts which they wouldn't
+ * otherwise have access to. [This problem was brought up on
+ * Bugtraq, as a complaint against sudo.]
+ */