Bug 7084

Summary: Cannot create read only variables.
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Hemant Shah <shahhe>
Component: pdkshAssignee: Trond Eivind Glomsrxd <teg>
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Version: 6.1CC: shahhe
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Description Hemant Shah 1999-11-17 19:23:41 UTC 
I recently bought RedHat 6.1 Professional version.
Yesterday I upgraded my system to redhat Linux 6.1. Many of my shell
scripts stopped working because they contained "typeset -r"
commands.

Example:
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#!/bin/ksh

typeset -r ExeName=${0##*/}
typeset -r NiceOpt=""
print $ExeName
date
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When I execute above script I get following message:

/tmp/tst.ksh[3] ExeName: is read only
/tmp/tst.ksh[4] NiceOpt: is read only

Wed Nov 17 11:09:06 CST 1999


As you can see ExeName is not set.

Here is the output of uname -a before upgrade:
Linux lidp14 2.0.34 #21 Thu Apr 29 12:22:41 CDT 1999 i586 unknown

Here is th output of uname -a after upgrade:
Linux lidp14 2.2.12-20 #1 Mon Sep 27 10:25:54 EDT 1999 i586 unknown

Please respond ASAP, all my administrative scripts are not working.

Thanks.

Hemant Shah, LIDP Inc.
E-mail: shahhe
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Comment 1 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2000-04-06 15:01:59 UTC 
I don't think you can assign at the same time you set the "-r" attribute - do it
like this instead:

ExeName=${0##*/}
NiceOpt=""
typeset -r ExeName
typeset -r NiceOpt
print $ExeName