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On 12/15/15 6:12 AM, Aurelien ROUGEMONT wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.3
> Patch Level: 30
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
> in the posix shell specification [1] when a script tries to to
> overwrite a readonly variable it should crash the script.
>
> Repeat-By:
> #!/bin/bash
> readonly rovar="goodvalue"
> rovar="badvalue"
> echo "You should not see this message"
>
> Fix:
> the bash interpreter should exit when the readonly var is being asked
> for an overwrite
The shell exits in this case when it is running in Posix mode.
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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
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