Re: REGRESSION: shellshock patch rejects valid function names

[Chet Ramey]

On 9/29/14, 5:25 PM, Dan Douglas wrote:

> This doesn't normally matter because POSIX requires special builtins to take 
> precedence over functions during command search, so even if you have such a 
> function defined it is impossible to call. Bash doesn't use the correct 
> search 
> order however.

Bash searches for special builtins before shell functions when in Posix
mode.

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