I mean that the program would be loaded in the same manner in which Bash would execute any other object-code program that isn't loaded /into/ Bash as a builtin, like "ls", "su", and "dirname", all from GNU Coreutils.
-- Sent from my iPod > On Jan 26, 2015, at 10:25 AM, Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 10:14:19AM -0800, Ryan Cunningham wrote: >> Sorry, I forgot to state that it could also be saved by an object code >> editor and loaded then like you would load any other program in object code. > > Bash doesn't run object code, except in one very unusual situation: > a user-supplied loadable builtin. > > There's relatively little information on those because they are so > seldom used. Here's a small set of URLs: > > http://cfajohnson.com/shell/articles/dynamically-loadable/ > http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashLoadable > http://cfajohnson.com/shell/bash/loadables/ > > I don't see any direct connection between here documents and loadable > builtins, though.
