Re: proposed BASH_SOURCE_PATH

[Chet Ramey]

On 7/3/24 2:37 PM, konsolebox wrote:

On Mon, Jul 1, 2024 at 10:56 PM Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote:

On 6/26/24 5:59 AM, konsolebox wrote:

On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 11:14 PM Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote:

On 6/19/24 6:12 PM, konsolebox wrote:

Alternatively, have BASH_SOURCE always produce real physical paths
either by default or through a shopt.

This is the best option. I don't think changing bash to do this by default
would have negative side-effects.

That's great.  So will this be implemented soon or will you consider
other lazy alternatives first?

I already made a patch for it here:
https://gist.github.com/konsolebox/a908cf13e511abdf05daec89a9cbdd8d#file-bash-source-real-patch

Should your patch make sure that paths supplied to source/. push the full
pathname into BASH_SOURCE? It only handles the name of a shell script and
leaves the pathname associated with a shell function alone.

Sorry it took me a while to reply.  Should this be enough?

So your answer is "yes." Is there anything to be gained by leaving the
pathname to source/. unchanged and just storing the full pathname of the
script file argument?

I'm looking for input from people who write shell frameworks here. The ones
who were vocal about BASH_SOURCE_PATH, since these concepts seem related.

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