Re: Taint marker for set -r

On 8/25/26 8:08 AM, Sam James wrote:
> Chet Ramey <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>> On 8/23/26 6:27 PM, Sam James wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I'm looking into use of rbash/set -r for sourcing and extracting
>>> values
>>> from a script (*). For my usecase, a Bash loadable plugin works for
>>> allowing `source` in such an environment for a limited subset of paths.
>>> I'd like to detect any operation which was denied by `set -r`, but I
>>> don't want to impose `set -e` semantics as it'd be excessive and break
>>> some of the scripts I need to source (which I can't modify for this).
>>> Could any denied operation by way of set -r set some read-only
>>> variable
>>> that I can fetch after sourcing?
>>
>> I wonder if this would be better suited for a new trap.
> 
> Ah, that's a better idea indeed and would work well.

OK, let's put that one on the list.

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