Chet Ramey <[email protected]> writes: > On 8/23/26 6:27 PM, Sam James wrote: >> Hi, >> I'm looking into use of rbash/set -r for sourcing and extracting >> values >> from a script (*). For my usecase, a Bash loadable plugin works for >> allowing `source` in such an environment for a limited subset of paths. >> I'd like to detect any operation which was denied by `set -r`, but I >> don't want to impose `set -e` semantics as it'd be excessive and break >> some of the scripts I need to source (which I can't modify for this). >> Could any denied operation by way of set -r set some read-only >> variable >> that I can fetch after sourcing? > > I wonder if this would be better suited for a new trap.
Ah, that's a better idea indeed and would work well.
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