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List:       bash-bug
Subject:    Re: rewriting a readonly var should exit
From:       Aurelien ROUGEMONT <beorn () gandi ! net>
Date:       2015-12-15 15:00:10
Message-ID: 56702AFA.5020903 () gandi ! net
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On 12/15/2015 03:39 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Aurelien ROUGEMONT <beorn@gandi.net> writes:
> 
>> 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"
> 
> You are not running the shell in posix mode.
> 
> Andreas.
> 
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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