On 10/20/16 3:57 PM, Dan Douglas wrote: >> No, it's trivial. It's an assignment failure. The fix is to remove >> the readonly attribute. > > Makes sense to me. I noticed the problem on the same day this was > reported while trying to compare two environments while eliminating all > the non-constant dynamic variables from the comparison, that I could > only override BASHPID by calling bash with:
It's interesting how the reports cluster like that. The behavior has been the same since December, 2006 (development implementation, very soon after bash-3.2 released) and February, 2009 (bash-4.0 released). -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/