shell function name length, question

Sat Aug 14 15:50:27 UTC 2021

Il giorno sab 14 ago 2021 alle ore 17:29 tito <farmatito at tiscali.it> ha
scritto:

>
> what happens if two functions have a 257 char long name that differ
> only in the last char?
>

The $FUNCNAME will display the first 256 characters only
Who will search for the function, it will find two.

> Why don't make the names as long as needed with a dynamically
> allocated buffer?
>

Bug prone, dealing with malloc returns NULL, etc.

Thank you for your question, I found and fixed a bug.
I will submit the 6th patch in the other thread.
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Roberto A. Foglietta
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