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Re: [patch #7818] Loop breaks when trying to write to a readonly variable

by Daniel Amthor-5 :: Rate this Message:

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Chet,

2012/7/13 Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@...>

> On 7/13/12 8:53 AM, Daniel Amthor wrote:
>
> 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.
>
So...works as designed ?

Best
Dan

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