Re: execute_cmd.h is not included in installed headers

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/2/22 3:23 PM, Robert E. Griffith wrote:
> "execute_cmd.h" is not listed in the INSTALLED_HEADERS macro which 
> determines which headers are included for the install-headers target.

Yes, builtin commands are generally the target of execution, not things
that execute other builtins or shell functions. When builtins execute
other commands, it's either something like eval/command/source/exec or
the jobs -x/fc type of transform-and-execute.

> Is it problematic for a loadable builtin to execute shell functions or is 
> it maybe an oversight that that header is not included? If I build against 
> the full source it appears to work fine but I wonder if there are edge 
> cases that cause problems.

It's not necessarily an oversight, just not something that builtin commands
generally do. What's your use case?

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