From: Michael Greenberg <michael@greenberg.science>
To: наб <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Cc: Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu>, dash@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] options: don't error when unsetting OPTIND
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2022 13:39:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m25yeco6ji.fsf@greenberg.science> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221214230738.kedln32yfzcgdovd@tarta.nabijaczleweli.xyz>
On 2022-12-15 at 12:07:38 AM, наб wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 05:36:22PM -0500, Michael Greenberg wrote:
>> On 2022-12-14 at 06:49:46 PM, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
>>
>> > Michael Greenberg wrote in
>> > <m2edt2nk5q.fsf@greenberg.science>:
>> > ...
>> > |Bafflingly, the POSIX spec gives the example `readonly HOME PWD`, but
>> > |with no explanation about why one might want to do that. (I get making
>> > |`HOME` readonly, but `PWD`? Is that supposed to stop `cd` from working?)
>> >
>> > PWD is a beast with lots of "behaviors of the cd and pwd utilities
>> > are unspecified" in case of user edits, see "2.5.3 Shell Variables".
>>
>> Is running `readonly PWD` the same as setting `PWD`?
>>
>> The language in the documentation for `cd` and in 2.5.3 only talks about setting or
>> unsetting `PWD`, but not the export/readonly bits.
>
> Isssue 8 Draft 2.1, XBD, 8.1 Environment Variable Definition para. 11
> (p. 156, ll. 5381-5390) says:
Thank you for finding this! I didn't think to check the current draft.
Cheers,
Michael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-15 18:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-14 2:31 [PATCH] options: don't error when unsetting OPTIND наб
2022-12-14 14:18 ` Michael Greenberg
2022-12-14 17:49 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2022-12-14 22:36 ` Michael Greenberg
2022-12-14 23:07 ` наб
2022-12-15 18:39 ` Michael Greenberg [this message]
2023-01-03 9:39 ` [PATCH] var: Do not add 1 to return value of strchrnul Herbert Xu
2023-01-03 9:51 ` [v2 PATCH] " Herbert Xu
2023-01-03 12:26 ` [PATCH] " наб
2023-01-04 9:59 ` Herbert Xu
2023-01-04 12:54 ` наб
2023-01-04 14:12 ` Herbert Xu
2023-01-04 16:05 ` наб
2023-01-04 16:50 ` Harald van Dijk
2024-05-19 11:19 ` [PATCH] options: Always reset OPTIND in getoptsreset Herbert Xu
2024-05-19 13:23 ` Harald van Dijk
2024-05-19 14:21 ` [v2 PATCH] " Herbert Xu
2024-05-21 14:38 ` наб
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