On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 1:51 PM Alejandro Colomar <alx@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 > > <nabijaczleweli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > 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. Yeah, this is a much better idea, thank you! -- Eugene Syromyatnikov mailto:evgsyr@xxxxxxxxx xmpp:esyr@jabber.{ru|org}
