On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 10:40:30AM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> 5) Dynamically test whether $LINENO is working inside shell functions,
> and prepend the function name to $LINENO if the bug is present.
A variant of this: always prepend the function name ("main" or something
if in the mainline). Besides helping with the relative-LINENO thing,
that:
- is generally useful, as it is in compiler error messages to
have both function name and (file-relative) line number
- ensures that the message prologue always has the same format,
whether or not the message came from a function, and whether
or not the script is running in a broken shell
Then mention in the docs that the line number is
function-relative on older shells.
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