On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 10:36:37AM -0800, Ryan Cunningham wrote: > 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.
Bash does not "load" external programs like ls. It executes them using execve(). (See shell_execve() in execute_cmd.c.) If you're proposing some scenario where a user types a bunch of raw object code on a keyboard, and then it gets saved to a file on disk, and chmod is used to give the file execute permissions, and then bash runs execve() on the resulting file, then I don't think any reasonable interpretation could consider this "loading a library of object code" as opposed to "running a separate program".
