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

[Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri]

On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 11:23:01AM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> 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

I appreciate all the responses, and thanks
also to Chet for looking into it.

Regards,
Kusalananda