Re: Are these bash.v.posix diffs still useful? They _seem_ dated...

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/30/21 6:50 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
> Since this "https://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/POSIX"; doesn't
> seem to be version specific, I'm assuming these are
> in the latest bash version.
> I don't understand the benefit of the differences involving
> hashed-commands and recovery behavior. It seemed like these
> behaviors may have served a purpose at one time, but now seem
> more likely to create an unnecessary failure case.
>
> First behavior: How is it beneficial for bash to
> store a non-executable in the command-hash?

Probably not very, but it's not all that harmful. The `checkhash' option
overrides this.

What's really wasteful is to put something non-executable in the hash table
when `checkhash' is set, only to remove it the next time you try to execute
it. I changed that a few weeks back.

> And second, related behavior: Not searching for an alternative
> in the PATH if the old hashed value stops working.

Again, `checkhash' covers this.

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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/