Re: Re-establishing the "magic" of the special vars in sh(1)

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost (Robert Elz) writes:

>A couple of them (including LINENO, obviously) but also RANDOM are
>very special, the magic cannot be removed, though it can temporarily
>be suspended by unsetting them.

Doesn't POSIX require that the variable is non-magic once set or unset
for the lifetime of the shell?

N.B. that would also be my preferred handling of all such variables.

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