Aurelien ROUGEMONT <be...@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. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, sch...@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different."