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cronic: allow an exported shell function as the command; reserve cronic_ names - #137
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When the caller exports SHELLOPTS, the command inherited cronic's own -e and -u, so a bash script that reads an unset variable (such as texi2dvi) failed. Running the command in a subshell also keeps the exit and exec builtins from ending cronic before it reports.
When the caller exports SHELLOPTS with xtrace or verbose, cronic traced or echoed itself to stderr, so cron sent email on every run. Also keep cronic's setup of the command out of the command's trace output.
The command no longer runs via `command`, so it may be an exported shell function, which runs with the caller's options. The command does not see any variable or function whose name starts with cronic_, even one that the caller exported.
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…ions # Conflicts: # cronic # tests/cronic-test/cronic-test.sh
…for source and eval
… tests Save the caller's SHELLOPTS rather than a hand-maintained list of option letters, so that every set -o option is restored for the command. Document that verbose and BASH_ENV can still make cronic write to stderr. In the tests, unset PS4, skip trace-section checks when bash lacks BASH_XTRACEFD, and share the PASS/FAIL reporting.
…EFD tests on old bash Run the restore code via `builtin`, so that an exported function such as `unset` cannot defeat the hiding of cronic_ names. Document in --help that COMMAND may be a builtin or an exported function and runs with the caller's shell options. Skip the tests that need BASH_XTRACEFD on bash before 4.1, and merge the two ad hoc goal checks into check_goals.
…e command Cronic's own code no longer sees a caller's exported function, so no command needs a `builtin` prefix. Posix mode makes special builtins such as `set`, `unset`, and `export` run in place of functions while saving and restoring.
Posix mode rejects a function name such as my-fn, which was lost, and with an exported errexit stopped cronic silently. A function that BASH_ENV defined is no longer exported to the command.
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- Line 26: Update the function-saving lookup in cronic so POSIX mode is disabled
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… functions; skip empty names
# Conflicts: # cronic
# Conflicts: # cronic # tests/cronic-test/cronic-test.sh
# Conflicts: # cronic # tests/cronic-test/cronic-test.sh
…c-functions # Conflicts: # cronic # tests/cronic-test/cronic-test.sh
…er's xtrace is on
…ot test via sh, which may be bash In posix mode, bash 3.2 rejects `unset -f` on a function whose name is not an identifier, so cronic now turns posix mode off before removing functions, and runs `unset` and `exit` via `builtin`. When `sh` is bash, as on macOS, it assigns POSIXLY_CORRECT itself, so two tests now run bash rather than `sh`.
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- Line 299: Check the result of the `eval` that unsets `cronic_` variables and
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…trace level Swap the trace descriptor only when the caller's xtrace is on and bash is 4.1 or later; run the command directly otherwise. Put the restoring redirection in a function rather than an eval, so that a builtin's trace is not nested an extra level. Test a builtin under xtrace, and check every xtrace case for cronic's own trace. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
…he command; tests: generate every SHELLOPTS wrapper with one function, which unsets BASH_ENV
# Conflicts: # cronic # tests/cronic-test/cronic-test.sh
…e comment; tests: run the verbose test through `check`
… same-shell re-exec, reuse BASH_XTRACEFD probe, clarify first-command comment
…e-scripts into cronic-no-command-trace # Conflicts: # cronic # tests/cronic-test/cronic-test.sh
…c-no-command-trace # Conflicts: # cronic # tests/cronic-test/cronic-test.sh
…he traced path as bash does, clarify help text, show diffs on test failure
…, clarify BASH_ENV help text, inline compare_streams, regroup header comments
…nts, drop the SHELLOPTS re-exec and two helper scripts from the tests
…c-no-command-trace # Conflicts: # cronic # tests/cronic-test/cronic-test.sh
…c-functions # Conflicts: # cronic # tests/cronic-test/cronic-test.sh
…c-functions # Conflicts: # tests/cronic-test/cronic-test.sh
…onic-functions # Conflicts: # cronic # tests/cronic-test/cronic-test.sh
…nto cronic-no-command-trace # Conflicts: # cronic # tests/cronic-test/cronic-test.sh
…onic-functions # Conflicts: # tests/cronic-test/cronic-test.sh
# Conflicts: # cronic # tests/cronic-test/cronic-test.sh
… command This removes the special handling that saved `builtin` and the switching back into posix mode in the subshell. Also factor the BASH_XTRACEFD skip in the tests into `check_trace_goals`.
Previously the error was reported but the command still ran, unlike when a function cannot be removed.
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Depends on #136; until that is landed, this diff includes it.
The command no longer runs via
command, so it may be an exported shell function, which runs with the caller's options. The command does not see any variable or function whose name starts withcronic_, even one that the caller exported.