LWN: Comments on "Bash 5.1 and Readline 8.1 released"

"accept" as a loadable

midol — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 01:56:08 +0000

where did you find the tarball?

Bash 5.1 and Readline 8.1 released

eru — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 09:04:58 +0000

From announcement: "The most significant change is a return to the bash-4.4 behavior of not performing pathname expansion on a word that contains backslashes but does not contain any unquoted globbing special characters."

I wonder what was the logic behind performing pathname expansion here in the previous version? The backslash is not a metacharacter that causes globbing. Or that is what I have always believed.

"accept" as a loadable

CChittleborough — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 02:22:11 +0000

I was intrigued to see that there is a new loadable builtin command named accept. Could it be this accept? Surely not ... But this is Bash, after all ...

So when I pulled the tarball down, I took a look ... and sure enough ... it is that accept.

To quote from its help text, accept “allows a bash script to act as a TCP/IP server”.

Wow.