> This is your key assertion, and it does not appear to have achieved > consensus.
That's true, unfortunately. >> The behavior of the source builtin already has several special cases. > Do you mean the treatment of the DEBUG trap? That's for the debugger. I mean that the source builtin already behaves differently depending on the state of the shell. The bash documentation for the source builtin states: > If filename does not contain a slash, > the PATH variable is used to find filename, > but filename does not need to be executable. > When Bash is not in POSIX mode, > it searches the current directory > if filename is not found in $PATH. I thought that simply adding the BASH_SOURCE_PATH variable would end up adding a new if statement to the documentation. Something like: > If the BASH_SOURCE_PATH environment variable > is defined, bash will search for filename in the > directories specified by it first, falling back to > PATH if not found. I interpreted that as adding complexity to the builtin and sought to avoid it by taking another approach. The result would be documented like this: > If the -l option is passed, bash searches the directories > specified by BASH_LIBRARIES _PATH only. PATH is ignored. I thought that was simpler. -- Matheus
