On 1/7/10 8:39 AM, Giuseppe Scrivano wrote:
> Hello,
>
> what do you think about make this the default behavior, not only when
> POSIXLY_CORRECT is specified? A `stat' is very fast, the cost of a
> stat+fork+exec is almost the same of a fork+exec.
If you want to make this your default behavior, enable the `checkhash'
option with shopt.
> I have a question: how bash should behave in the case you have:
>
> -------------------------------------------
> export PATH=a:b:$PATH
>
> mkdir a b
>
> cat > b/prog.sh << EOF
> echo b/prog.sh
> EOF
>
> chmod +x b/prog.sh
>
> prog.sh
>
> cat > a/prog.sh << EOF
> echo a/prog.sh
> EOF
>
> chmod +x a/prog.sh
>
> prog.sh
> -------------------------------------------
>
>
> Which prog.sh should be used in this case? a/prog.sh or b/prog.sh? The
> former has a higher precedence in PATH but the latter is the hashed
> value.
The hashed value should be preferred as long as it exists. If you're
concerned about this being a problem, run `hash prog.sh' after creating
it.
Chet
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