Hi: Thought that this Bash bug will be of interest to many users of the shell interface.
bash-3.2_p20+ aborts "source" commands when encountering read only variables. As we all know that 'source' command is a way of getting commands to run in one's current shell instead of opening a new shell. eg: . ./shellscript One might ask what is the impact of this bug ? This bug can seriously damage system... if one will be upgrading packages ! I learnt this after the damage was caused, udev deleted hotplug, environment variables went bonkers and portage install attempts were giving wierd response but correct bug numbers. If i wasn't on Gentoo, i wouldn't even know what hit me. If anybody is interested, please take a look at the bug report http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190128 Overall an experience of Free damage ! thanks Saifi.
