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Improve and document fast filescan loops (SHOPT_FILESCAN)

From README:

FILESCAN on  Experimental option that allows fast reading of files
             using while < file;do ...; done and allowing fields in
             each line to be accessed as positional parameters.

As SHOPT_FILESCAN has been enabled by default since ksh 93l
2001-06-01, the filescan loop is now documented in the manual page
and the compile-time option is no longer considered experimental.

We must disable this at runtime if --posix is active because it
breaks a portable use case: POSIXly, 'while <file; do stuff; done'
repeatedly excutes 'stuff' while 'file' can successfully be opened
for reading, without actually reading from 'file'.

This also backports a bugfix from the 93v- beta. Reproducer:

$ echo 'one two three' >foo
$ while <foo; do printf '[%s] ' "$@"; echo; done
[one two three]

Expected output:
[one] [two] [three]

The bug is that "$@" acts like "$*", joining all the positional
parameters into one word though it should be generating one word
for each.

src/cmd/ksh93/sh/macro.c: varsub():
- Backport fix for the bug described above. I do not understand the
  opaque macro.c code well enough yet to usefully describe the fix.

src/cmd/ksh93/sh/xec.c: sh_exec():
- Improved sanity check for filescan loop: do not recognise it if
  the simple command includes variable assignments, more than one
  redirection, or an output or append redirection.
- Disable filescan loops if --posix is active.
- Another 93v- fix: handle interrupts (errno==EINTR) when closing
  the input file.
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Martijn Dekker 2022-02-15 17:54:45 +00:00
parent 82ff91e9d9
commit 95d695cb5a
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#define SH_RELEASE_FORK "93u+m" /* only change if you develop a new ksh93 fork */
#define SH_RELEASE_SVER "1.0.0-beta.2" /* semantic version number: https://semver.org */
#define SH_RELEASE_DATE "2022-02-12" /* must be in this format for $((.sh.version)) */
#define SH_RELEASE_DATE "2022-02-15" /* must be in this format for $((.sh.version)) */
#define SH_RELEASE_CPYR "(c) 2020-2022 Contributors to ksh " SH_RELEASE_FORK
/* Scripts sometimes field-split ${.sh.version}, so don't change amount of whitespace. */