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Fix race conditions running external commands with job control on
When ksh is compiled with SHOPT_SPAWN (the default), which uses
posix_spawn(3) or vfork(2) (via sh_ntfork()) to launch external
commands, at least two race conditions occur when launching
external commands while job control is active. See:
1887863/comments/3
https://www.mail-archive.com/ast-developers@research.att.com/msg00717.html
The basic issue is that this performance optimisation is
incompatible with job control, because it uses a spawning mechanism
that doesn't copy the parent process' memory pages into the child
process, therefore no state that involves memory can be set before
exec-ing the external program. This makes it impossible to
correctly set the terminal's process group ID in the child process,
something that is essential for job control to work.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/xec.c:
- Use sh_fork() instead of sh_ntfork() if job control is active.
This uses fork(2), which is 30%-ish slower on most sytems, but
allows for correctly setting the terminal process group.
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/basic.sh:
- Add regression test for the race condition reported in #79.
src/cmd/INIT/cc.darwin:
- Remove hardcoded flag to disable SHOPT_SPAWN on the Mac.
It should be safe to use now.
Fixes https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/79
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- Fixed two race conditions when running external commands on
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interactive shells with job control active.
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2020-07-20:
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- If a shell function and a built-in command by the same name exist,
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