On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 09:22:28AM -0600, Todd C. Miller wrote: > On Thu, 08 Sep 2016 10:08:23 -0400, Anthony Coulter wrote: > > > We can fix either the manual or ksh itself; this diff takes the latter > > approach. It is tempting to do this with "typeset -ir PPID" but that > > actually doesn't work: > > > > $ FOO=123 > > $ typeset -ir FOO > > ksh: FOO: is read only > > Perhaps we should fix the above issue as well, other ksh versions > don't throw an error there. Below is a simple fix, though a bit > gross due to the magic 0x4.
Your fix looks correct to me and accomplishes the desired effect. Should we perhaps introduce #define NO_RO_CHECK 0x4 and replace the 5 occurrences of the magic number in var.c?
