Hi Eugene, nab,

On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 12:43:06PM GMT, Eugene Syromyatnikov wrote:

On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 5:36 PM Ahelenia Ziemiańska
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Per <https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=bf079e19f50d64aa5e05b5e17ec29afab9aabb20>:
* this was set by bash 2.0 (1996-12)
  (implemented in glibc b07c5668f672125074dd5b0b658145e1544120be)
* it's no longer set by bash 2.01 (1997-06) because it was bad
* glibc disabled this with no way to enable it in 2001-08
  (518a0dd201c48a5c15d73c1919c304a9f8f5e3c1)
* glibc removed it in 2017 bf079e19f50d64aa5e05b5e17ec29afab9aabb20

So this was experienced by people for 5 months at best,
and could remotely be experienced for 3 years
(if you somehow wanted this bad behaviour and added it into your shell),
over 20 years ago. No modern reader (or, frankly, non-modern reader)
has ever used this, or could use it, really.

I would suggest to rather comment it out (along with the provided
history above), so it's still preserved in some
relatively-easy-to-find form.

Maybe move it to HISTORY, having a short mention about it?  I don't like
those comments too much.

Have a lovely day!
Alex


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