DM> Thus, "foo" is just a file, but if it has the execute bit set,...

DM> Certain conventions exist for executable source code (such as shell
DM> scripts  or perl scripts),...

Which bring another question to mind.  If I write a program that prompts 
the user for a file name, and then pass that name directly to fopen() 
must that file name have "./" prepended if the target file is in the 
same directory as the executable and that directory is not in the path?

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