Re: command_not_found_handle() flaw

From	Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: command_not_found_handle() flaw
Date	2020-03-10 13:48 -0400
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On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 06:37:24PM +0100, Phi Debian wrote:
> In a nutshell to implement a function autoloading I want to plug into
> command_not_found_handle(), but I need command_not_found_handle()be
> evaluated in the shell context, not in a subshell.

You can't.  Bash has already forked the subshell before searching for
the command that's not found.  The command_not_found_handle runs in
the already existing subshell.

> To demonstrate the bug, suffice to do this

It's not a bug.

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Re: command_not_found_handle() flaw Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-03-10 13:48 -0400

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