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Re: [patch #7818] Loop breaks when trying to write to a readonly variabl
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Daniel Amthor |
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Re: [patch #7818] Loop breaks when trying to write to a readonly variable |
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Fri, 13 Jul 2012 17:17:11 +0200 |
Chet,
2012/7/13 Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
> On 7/13/12 8:53 AM, Daniel Amthor wrote:
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> Yeah, that's an assignment error. Posix says a non-interactive shell
> should exit in that case and that an interactive shell should write an
> error message without exiting. Bash doesn't exit the shell, but it does
> cause the current command to fail.
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So...works as designed ?
Best
Dan