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Re: Assigning to BASHPID fails silently


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: Assigning to BASHPID fails silently
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 15:35:06 -0400
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On 10/20/16 11:32 AM, Martijn Dekker wrote:

> So, in some contexts this bug causes a premature exit of the shell, in
> others it causes a premature exit of a loop. This bug hunt could get
> interesting.

No, it's trivial.  It's an assignment failure.  The fix is to remove
the readonly attribute.

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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/



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