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". --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)