On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:30:39AM -0500, DJ Mills wrote: > I believe that's referring to var=value command, as in the syntax to export > a variable into "command"s environment. > > readonly a=3 > a=2 echo foo
I thought that was what it meant, too, but I couldn't reproduce the "bug" that it was claiming to fix. imadev:~$ bash-4.2.37 -posix -c 'readonly a=3; a=2 echo foo; echo survived' bash-4.2.37: a: readonly variable foo survived imadev:~$ bash-4.1.9 -posix -c 'readonly a=3; a=2 echo foo; echo survived' bash-4.1.9: a: readonly variable foo survived imadev:~$ bash-4.1.9 -posix -c 'readonly a=3; a=2 /bin/echo foo; echo survived' bash-4.1.9: a: readonly variable foo survived
