Re: [PATCH v2 5/8] builtins/source: parse the -i option

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/16/24 11:54 AM, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2024-05-16T11:36:50-0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> > On 5/15/24 6:27 PM, Robert Elz wrote:
> > > and any attempt to use a relative path (and you
> > > can exclude ./anything or ../anything from that if you prefer - ie:
> >
> > Those are not relative paths.
>
> !
>
> POSIX 1003.1-202x/D4, §3.311 defines "relative pathname" thus:
>
> "A pathname not beginning with a <slash> character."
>
> Can you clarify?  Does Bash have its own definition of this term?

In this specific case, I suppose. In default mode, `source' doesn't use
$PATH for ./x and ../x, but does for other relative pathnames.

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