Re: Improvement to hash

[Chet Ramey]

Roman Rakus wrote:
> I would like to ask, if is possible make a small improvement.
> Look at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430179
> Maybe it will be good to change hash automatically, if bash fails to
> execute file. Something like:
> 1) execute file -> write in hash
> 2) remove file
> 3a) execute file -> find in hash -> not found -> remove from hash -> try
> to execute once again
> 3b) execute file -> find in hash -> not found -> remove from hash ->
> display error message like now, but if you execute once again, it will
> run (if is anywhere in PATH).

This is what the `checkhash' shell option addresses.  Is there something
you'd like to see added to that?  (Keep in mind that you cannot add to
the hash only after a successful execution because those things are done
in different processes.)

Chet
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