Re: OSTYPE (etc.) is clobbered

[Paul Jarc]

Chet Ramey <chet@nike.INS.CWRU.Edu> writes:
> > First, I can understand wanting to set this variable, but bash should
> > not set the variable if it is already set. This is a design decision
> > with which some may disagree
> 
> This seems reasonable; I will think about making the setting of
> OSTYPE, HOSTTYPE, and MACHTYPE conditional on the variables not being
> previously defined.

Here's an idea: if a particular environment variable (say,
$DONT_TOUCH_ENV) is set, don't touch any variables whatsoever (except
as directed by commands from the startup file(s) or input source).  I
know I would find this useful.


paul