Re: enable builtin bugs in bash 5.2

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/30/23 4:46 PM, Robert Elz wrote:
>      Date:        Tue, 30 May 2023 15:28:57 -0400
>      From:        Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
>      Message-ID:  <ad399376-280e-bcdd-1aff-740f1a6ea4de@case.edu>
>
>    | Hmmmm. That's not the only option. How about we load it if found but mark
>    | it as not enabled? It will still take `enable -d' to delete it.
>
> That wouldn't match the man page, and isn't really rational.

The documentation can always be changed to match a change in behavior.

> The man page says:
>
>      The -f option means to load the new builtin command name from
>      shared object filename, on systems that support dynamic loading.
>
> and
>
>      If no options are supplied and a name is not a shell builtin,
>      enable will attempt to load name from a shared object named name,
>      as if the command were ``enable -f name name .

I think it's reasonable to stay like that, and change the behavior as
Emanuele proposes.

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