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From: Aurelien ROUGEMONT <beorn@gandi.net>
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Subject: Re: rewriting a readonly var should exit
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 16:00:10 +0100
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On 12/15/2015 03:39 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Aurelien ROUGEMONT <beorn@gandi.net> writes:
>=20
>> 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=3D"goodvalue"
>>         rovar=3D"badvalue"
>> 	echo "You should not see this message"
>=20
> You are not running the shell in posix mode.
>=20
> Andreas.
>=20
Oh true. sorry about the noise then. thought bash would behave the same
as sh/dash/manyothersihavetested.

Nevermind

Thanks for the feedback.

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