Re: Bash-3.2 Official Patch 20

[Chet Ramey]

Mike Frysinger wrote:

> a side note ... if you change any of BASH_{ARGC,ARGV,LINENO,SOURCE} before 
> setting a readonly variable, bash will not spit out the error message about 
> the variable being readonly ...
> (UID=1)
> -bash: UID: readonly variable
> (BASH_ARGC= UID=1)
> <no output>
> this regression seems to have appeared between the last bash-2 and the first 
> bash-3 ...

They're not readonly variables.  The shell doesn't allow them to be unset,
but you can assign new (even nonsense) values.

Chet

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