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It's used to export functions from one instance of bash to a child. Do you think that that's a terrible idea, or do you have a better idea of how to implement i
by philh 12y ago
It's used to export functions from one instance of bash to a child. Do you think that that's a terrible idea, or do you have a better idea of how to implement it?
(The fix changes it so that exporting is done through specially named variables. Instead of exporting `x='() { :; };`, it now exports `BASH_FUNCTION_x()='() { :; };'`.)
- stormbrew 12y agoDo any other shells do it? Afaik it's not part of the POSIX sh spec. So any script that does it is going to be extremely dependent on bash in particular. It would take actual use cases to convince me it's not a terrible idea. No matter what it's a mechanism to throw arbitrary code into a script that has no say in it. This is not the sort of thing you should do because it seems cool, it should be the sort of thing you do because of a really compelling use case that necessitates it. The fact that afaik no other shell has implemented this behaviour since bash did (a couple of decades ago if I understand correctly?) would rather suggest there is a lack of need for this.