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Re: rewriting a readonly var should exit

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Subject Re: rewriting a readonly var should exit
Date Tue, 15 Dec 2015 09:29:17 -0500
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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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Re: rewriting a readonly var should exit Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2015-12-15 09:29 -0500

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