Re: lost sysread

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>]

On 2024-05-05 08:42, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Sun, May 5, 2024 at 6:17 AM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
>> Supposing the error msg was: "Module 'sysread' is not loaded"?
> If the module hasn't been loaded yet, how is the shell supposed to
> know that sysread isn't an external command?   The whole point of
> modules is that the base shell does not have a compiled-in list of all
> the possible things that could come from modules.
Sure, it might not be workable.  Just an idea.  As you say there'd have 
to be some list and that wouldn't be worth the weight.   Or some way of 
quickly scanning what's available:
zmodload --quick-check ... sorta
Not worth it since I suppose one only need bump into the problem once to 
be made wise to 'not found' being sometimes 'not loaded' -- it never 
happened to me before this.  It seems I usually end up with the module 
loaded even tho I don't know exactly where it gets done. I like 
helpfulness but not at the cost of bloat.  Yup, if it couldn't be done 
easily then it's not worth worrying about.

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