Re: rewriting a readonly var should exit

[Aurelien ROUGEMONT]

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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