Re: [Help-bash] errexit and attempting to change readonly functions

[Chet Ramey]

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
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