Re: Bash-3.2 Official Patch 20

[Mike Frysinger]

On Saturday 25 August 2007, Chet Ramey wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > a side note ... if you change any of BASH_{ARGC,ARGV,LINENO,SOURCE}
> > before setting a readonly variable, bash will not spit out the error
> > message about the variable being readonly ...
> > (UID=1)
> > -bash: UID: readonly variable
> > (BASH_ARGC= UID=1)
> > <no output>
> > this regression seems to have appeared between the last bash-2 and the
> > first bash-3 ...
>
> They're not readonly variables.  The shell doesn't allow them to be unset,
> but you can assign new (even nonsense) values.

what i meant was that for some reason, i didnt get the readonly error after 
modifying one of those four values, but the script stopped parsing at the 
same spot since it was a readonly var ...

(UID=1)
-bash: UID: readonly variable

(BASH_ARGV=""; UID=1; echo HI)
<no error about UID being readonly, no echo "HI">
-mike

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