Re: proposed BASH_SOURCE_PATH

[Chet Ramey]

On 8/6/24 3:09 AM, konsolebox wrote:

> I just saw the new changes and tested it.  It's not useful because
> BASH_SOURCE still expands to the relative form after `shopt -s
> bash_source_fullpath` is executed in the main script.

You mean for the paths that were added to BASH_SOURCE before setting
the option? If that's a concern for you, maybe start the script with
that option enabled on the command line.

> This is why I
> was saying context directories would have to be stored and paths
> already stored in BASH_SOURCE would have to be converted to real path
> versions the moment the option is enabled; 

That's wrong for the same reason people didn't like doing it themselves:
if the shell changes the working directory, prefixing the working
directory is incorrect.

> If this is already final can the option at least be allowed to be
> enabled by default at compile time?

Woe unto the poor soul who expects the default behavior and happens to use
a distro compiled with that as the default. Not that that's likely to
happen.

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

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