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    However, for bash 1.x (included with e.g. redhat 6.2), the --noediting
    option isn't recognized and bash refuses to start.

That is fairly old.  I don't think we should drop the feature
just for the sake of old systems.  Is there a way to detect the
error and start bash again in a suitable way for bash 1.x?