Enable/disable (was Re: Enhanced shell)

["Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 23,  3:00pm, Nadav Har'El wrote:
}
} On Mon, Jul 23, 2001, Oliver Kiddle wrote about "Re: Enhanced shell":
} > > ? disable/enable? [bash]
} > not so useful. they are also common as commands to enable/disable
} > printers (on AIX and Solaris at least).
} 
} These are useful for restricted-shell mode, when you sometimes want to
} disable builtins (e.g., the "read" builtin allows the restricted user to
} read files that they shouldn't).

As of 4.0.1, `builtin read' will run `read' even after `disable read'.
Maybe we need to rethink that.

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