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| From: | Chet Ramey |
| Subject: | Re: [Help-bash] errexit and attempting to change readonly functions |
| Date: | Tue, 1 Oct 2019 11:23:01 -0400 |
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On 9/27/19 6:12 AM, Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri wrote: > A function can be made read-only with > > readonly -f func > > This stops it from being unset or redefined: > > $ func () { echo hello; } > bash: func: readonly function > > However, with the errexit shell option set, I would expect the shell > to exit when doing this It's an oversight, probably dating back to when POSIX only required the shell to exit if a simple command failed when errexit is enabled. I'll change it for the next release. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU address@hidden http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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