Re: proposed BASH_SOURCE_PATH

[Chet Ramey]

On 7/18/24 4:44 PM, konsolebox wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2024 at 11:02 PM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
> > On 7/11/24 3:51 AM, konsolebox wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 4:08 AM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
> > > > and the BASH_SOURCE
> > > > absolute pathname discussion has been bananas, so that's not going in any
> > > > time soon.
> > >
> > > Maybe just create BASH_SOURCE_REAL instead to avoid the gripes.
> >
> > I don't think so. It's not very useful to have two variables that are so
> > similar -- it's needless overhead.
>
> So I guess it's really now just about BASH_SOURCE.  What's the final
> decision on this?  I don't think waiting for more input would make a
> difference.

The best path forward is to enable the behavior with a new shell option,
initially disabled.

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