typeset -g allows directly manipulating the attributes of variables
at the global level from any context. This feature already exists
on bash 4.2 and later.
mksh (R50+), yash and zsh have this flag as well, but it's slightly
different: it ignores the current local scope, but a parent local
scope from a calling function may still be used -- whereas on bash,
'-g' always refers to the global scope. Since ksh93 uses static
scoping (see III.Q28 at <http://kornshell.com/doc/faq.html>), only
the bash behaviour makes sense here.
Note that the implementation needs to be done both in nv_setlist()
(name.c) and in b_typeset() (typeset.c) because assignments are
executed before the typeset built-in itself. Hence also the
pre-parsing of typeset options in sh_exec().
src/cmd/ksh93/include/nval.h:
- Add new NV_GLOBAL bit flag, using a previously unused bit that
still falls within the 32-bit integer range.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/xec.c: sh_exec():
- When pre-parsing typeset flags, make -g pass the NV_GLOBAL flag
to the nv_setlist() call that processes shell assignments prior
to running the command.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/name.c: nv_setlist():
- When the NV_GLOBAL bit flag is passed, save the current variable
tree pointer (sh.var_tree) as well as the current namespace
(sh.namespace) and temporarily set the former to the global
variable tree (sh.var_base) and the latter to NULL. This makes
assignments global and ignores namesapces.
src/cmd/ksh93/bltins/typeset.c:
- b_typeset():
- Use NV_GLOBAL bit flag for -g.
- Allow combining -n with -g, permitting 'typeset -gn var' or
'nameref -g var' to create a global nameref from a function.
- Do not allow a nonsensical use of -g when using nested typeset
to define member variables of 'typeset -T' types. (Type method
functions can still use it as normal.)
- setall():
- If NV_GLOBAL is passed, use sh.var_base and deactivate
sh.namespace as in nv_setlist(). This allows attributes
to be set correctly for global variables.
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/{functions,namespace}.sh:
- Add regression tests based on reproducers for problems found
by @hyenias in preliminary versions of this feature.
Resolves: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/479
Add extra key bindings to the emacs and vi modes
This patch adds the following key bindings to the emacs and vi
editing modes:
- Support for Home key sequences ^[[1~ and ^[[7~ as well as End key
sequences ^[[4~ and ^[[8~.
- Support for arrow key sequences ^[OA, ^[OB, ^[OC and ^[OD.
- Support for the following keyboard shortcuts (if the platform
supports the expected escape sequence):
- Ctrl-Left Arrow: Go back one word
- Alt-Left Arrow: Go back one word (Not supported on Haiku)
- Ctrl-Right Arrow: Go forward one word
- Alt-Right Arrow: Go forward one word (Not supported on Haiku)
- Ctrl-G: Cancel reverse search
- Ctrl-Delete: Delete next word (Not supported on Haiku)
- Added a key binding for the Insert key, which differs in the
emacs and vi editing modes:
- In emacs mode, Insert escapes the next character.
- In vi mode, Insert will switch the editor to insert mode (like
in vim).
src/cmd/ksh93/edit/{emacs,vi}.c:
- Add support for the <M-Left> and <M-Right> sequences. Like in
bash and mksh, these shortcuts move the cursor one word backward
or forward (like the <Ctrl-Left> and <Ctrl-Right> shortcuts).
- Only attempt to process these shortcuts if the escape sequence
begins with $'\E[1;'.
src/cmd/ksh93/edit/vi.c:
- If the shell isn't doing a reverse search, insert the bell
character when Ctrl+G is input.
- Add the Ctrl-Delete shortcut as an alias of 'dw'. Calling
ed_ungetchar twice does not work for 'dw', so Ctrl-Delete was
implemented by using a vp->del_word variable.
Co-authored-by: Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.org>
This adds two long-form shell options that modify history expansion
(-H/--histexpand). If --histreedit is on and a history expansion
fails, the command line is reloaded into the next prompt's edit
buffer, allowing corrections. If --histverify is on, the results of
a history expansion are not immediately executed but instead loaded
into the next prompt's edit buffer, allowing further changes.
SH_HISTREEDIT and SH_HISTVERIFY were already handled all along in
slowread() in io.c and via 'reedit' arguments to functions called
there, but could not be turned on as they were only ever exposed as
shopt options in the removed bash compatibility mode (in theory
only, as it failed to compile). I had overlooked them until now.
So, since the code is there, let's expose these options through the
normal long options interface. They're working fine, and activating
them actually makes history expansion tolerable to use.
src/cmd/ksh93/data/options.c:
- Make these options available as "histreedit" and "histverify".
src/cmd/ksh93/data/builtins.c,
src/cmd/ksh93/sh.1:
- Document the "new" options.
src/cmd/ksh93/include/defs.h:
- Remove unused SH_HISTAPPEND and SH_HISTORY2 macros which were
part of the removed bash compatibility code. Note that ksh does
not need a histappend option as it never overwrites the history
file (in the bash mode, this shopt option was a no-op).
This commit makes various different improvements to the documentation:
- sh.1: Backported (with changes) mandoc warning fixes from ksh2020
for the ksh93(1) man page: <https://github.com/att/ast/pull/1406>
- Removed unnecessary spaces at the end of lines to fix a few other
mandoc warnings.
- Fixed various typos and capitalization errors in the documentation.
- ANNOUNCE: Document the addition of the ${.sh.pid} variable
(re: 9de65210).
- libast/man/str*: Update the man pages for the libast str* functions
to improve how accurately each function is described.
- ksh93/README: Update regression test/compatibility notes to include
OpenBSD 7.0, FreeBSD 13.0 and WSL running Ubuntu 20.04.
- Change a few places to store the return value from strlen in a
size_t variable rather than signed int.
- comp/setlocale.c: To avoid confusion of two separate variables named
lang, the function local variable has been renamed to langidx.
This patch adds a few extra options to the ulimit command (if the OS
supports them). These options are also present in Bash, although in ksh
additional long forms of each option are available:
ulimit -k/--kqueues This is the maximum number of kqueues.
ulimit -P/--npts This is the maximum number of pseudo-terminals.
ulimit -R/--rttime This is the time a real-time process can run
before blocking, in microseconds. When the
limit is exceeded, the process is sent SIGXCPU.
Other changes:
- bltins/ulimit.c: Change the formatting from sfprintf and increase the
size of the tmp buffer to prevent text from being cut off in ulimit
-a (this was required to add ulimit -R).
- data/limits.c: Add support for using microseconds as a unit.
This commit backports the whence '-t' option from ksh93v-. The '-t'
option is useful when one needs to identify the type of a command.
The '-t' flag was added by ksh93v- for compatibility with Bash.
It should be noted the ksh93v- patch had one bug, which this commit
fixes. Path-bound builtins from /opt/ast/bin were classified as
files if loaded from /opt/ast/bin in the PATH. Reproducer:
$ PATH=/opt/ast/bin whence -t cat
file
src/cmd/ksh93/bltins/whence.c:
- Simplify the bitmask values for the command and whence builtin
flags.
- Add the -t flag to the whence and type builtins. To prevent bugs,
-t will always override -v if both of those flags were passed.
src/cmd/ksh93/data/builtins.c,
src/cmd/ksh93/sh.1:
- Add documentation for the new -t option.
Announcing: KornShell 93u+m 1.0.0-beta.2
https://github.com/ksh93/ksh
In May 2020, when every KornShell (ksh93) development project was
abandoned, development was rebooted in a new fork based on the last
stable AT&T version: ksh 93u+. This new fork is called ksh 93u+m as a
permanent nod to its origin. We're restarting it at version 1.0. Seven
months after the first beta, the second one is ready. Please test this
second beta and report any bugs you find, or help us fix known bugs.
We're now the default ksh93 in some OS distributions, at least Debian
and Slackware! Even though we don't think it's stable release quality
yet, the consensus seems to be that 93u+m is already much better than
the last AT&T release.
Main developers: Martijn Dekker, Johnothan King, hyenias
Contributors: Andy Fiddaman, Anuradha Weeraman, Chase, Gordon Woodhull,
Govind Kamat, Harald van Dijk, Lev Kujawski, Marc Wilson, Ryan Schmidt,
Sterling Jensen
HOW TO GET IT
Please download the source code tarball from our GitHub releases page:
https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/releases
To build, follow the instructions in README.md or src/cmd/ksh93/README.
HOW TO GET INVOLVED
To report a bug, please open an issue at our GitHub page (see above).
Alternatively, email me at martijn@inlv.org with your report.
To get involved in development, read the brief policy information in
README.md and then jump right in with a pull request or email a patch.
See the TODO file in the top-level directory for a to-do list.
*** MAIN CHANGES between 1.0.0-beta.1 and 1.0.0-beta.2 ***
New features in built-in commands:
- 'cd' now supports an -e option that, when combined with -P, verifies
that $PWD is correct after changing directories; this helps detect
access permission problems. See:
https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=253
- 'printf' now supports a -v option as in bash. This assigns formatted
output directly to variables, which is very fast and will not strip
final newline (\n) characters.
- The 'return' command, when used to return from a function, can now
return any status value in the 32-bit signed integer range, like on
zsh. However, due to a traditional Unix kernel limitation, $? is
still trimmed to its least significant 8 bits whenever leaving a
(sub)shell environment.
- 'test'/'[' now supports all the same operators as [[ (including =~,
\<, \>) except for the different 'and'/'or' operators. Note that
'test'/'[' remains deprecated due to its unfixable pitfalls;
[[ ... ]] is recommended instead.
Shell language changes:
- Several improvements were made to the --noexec shell code linter.
- Arithmetic expressions in native ksh mode no longer interpret a
number with a leading zero as octal in any context. Use 8#octalnumber
instead (e.g. 8#400 == 256). Arithmetic expressions now also behave
identically within and outside ((...)) and $((...)).
- POSIX compatibility mode fixes (only applicable with the --posix shell
option on):
- A leading zero is now consistently recognised as introducing an octal
number in all arithmetic contexts.
- $((inf)) and $((nan)) are now interpreted as regular variables.
- The '.' built-in no longer runs ksh functions and now only runs
files.
Bugs fixed:
- '.' and '..' are now once again completed by tab completion.
- If SIGINT is set to ignore, the interactive shell no longer exits on
Ctrl+C.
- ksh now builds and runs on Apple's new M1 hardware.
- The 'return' and 'exit' commands no longer risk triggering actual
signals by returning or exiting with a status > 256.
- Ksh no longer behaves badly when parsing a type definition command
('typeset -T' or 'enum') without executing it or when executing it in
a subshell. Types can now safely be defined in subshells and defined
conditionally as in 'if condition; then enum ...; fi'.
- Discipline functions, especially those applied to PS2 or .sh.tilde,
will no longer crash your shell upon being interrupted or throwing an
error.
- Fixed a bug that could corrupt output if standard output is closed
upon initialising the shell.
- Fixed a bug in the [[ ... ]] compound command: the '!' logical
negation operator now correctly negates another '!', e.g.,
[[ ! ! 1 -eq 1 ]] now returns 0/true. Note that this has always been
the case for 'test'/'['.
- Fixed SHLVL so that replacing ksh by itself (exec ksh) will not
increase it.
- Arithmetic expressions are no longer allowed to assign out-of-range
values to variables of types declared with enum.
- The 'time' keyword no longer makes the --errexit shell option
ineffective.
- Various bugs in libcmd built-in commands (those bound to the
/opt/ast/bin path by default) have been fixed.
- Various other crashing bugs have been fixed.
Fixes for the shcomp byte code compiler:
- shcomp is now able to compile scripts that define types using enum.
- shcomp now refuses to mess up your terminal by writing bytecode
to it.
*** MAIN CHANGES between ksh 93u+ 2012-08-01 and 93u+m 1.0.0-beta.1 ***
Hundreds of bugs have been fixed, including many serious/critical bugs.
This includes upstreamed patches from OpenSUSE, Red Hat, and Solaris, fixes
backported from the abandoned 93v- beta and ksh2020 fork, as well as many
new fixes from the community. See the NEWS file for more information, and
the git commit log for complete documentation of every fix. Incompatible
changes have been minimised, but not at the expense of fixing bugs. For a
list of potentially incompatible changes, see src/cmd/ksh93/COMPATIBILITY.
Though there was a "no new features, bugfixes only" policy, some new
features were found necessary, either to fix serious design flaws or to
complete functionality that was evidently intended, but not finished.
Below is a summary of these new features.
New command line editor features:
- The forward-delete and End keys are now handled as expected in the
emacs and vi built-in line editors.
- In the vi and emacs line editors, repeat count parameters can now also
be used for the arrow keys and the forward-delete key. E.g., in emacs
mode, <ESC> 7 <left-arrow> will now move the cursor seven positions to
the left. In vi control mode, this would be entered as: 7 <left-arrow>.
New shell language features:
- The &>file redirection shorthand (for >file 2>&1) is now available for
all scripts and interactive sessions and not only for profile/login
scripts, bringing ksh 93u+m in line with mksh, bash, and zsh.
- File name generation (a.k.a. pathname expansion, a.k.a. globbing) now
never matches the special navigational names '.' (current directory)
and '..' (parent directory). This change makes a pattern like .*
useful; it now matches all hidden files (dotfiles) in the current
directory, without the harmful inclusion of '.' and '..'.
- Tilde expansion can now be extended or modified by defining a
.sh.tilde.get or .sh.tilde.set discipline function. This replaces a
2004 undocumented attempt to add this functionality via a .sh.tilde
command, which never worked and crashed the shell. See the manual for
details on the new method.
New features in built-in commands:
- Usage error messages now show the --help/--man self-documentation options.
- Path-bound built-ins (such as /opt/ast/bin/cat) can now be executed by
invoking the canonical path, so the following will now work as expected:
$ /opt/ast/bin/cat --version
version cat (AT&T Research) 2012-05-31
- 'command -x' now looks for external commands only, skipping built-ins.
In addition, its xargs-like functionality no longer freezes the shell on
Linux and macOS, making it effectively a new feature on these systems.
- 'redirect' now checks if all arguments are valid redirections before
performing them. If an error occurs, it issues an error message instead
of terminating the shell.
- 'suspend' now refuses to suspend a login shell, as there is probably no
parent shell to return to and the login session would freeze.
- 'times' now gives high precision output in a POSIX compliant format.
- 'typeset' now gives an informative error message if an incompatible
combination of options is given.
- 'whence -v/-a' now reports the location of autoloadable functions.
New features in shell options:
- A new --globcasedetect shell option is added on OSs where we can
check for a case-insensitive file system (currently Windows/Cygwin,
macOS, Linux and QNX 7.0+). When this option is turned on, file name
generation (globbing), as well as file name tab completion on
interactive shells, automatically become case-insensitive on file
systems where the difference between upper and lower case is ignored
for file names. This is transparently determined for each directory, so
a path pattern that spans multiple file systems can be part
case-sensitive and part case-insensitive.
- A new --nobackslashctrl shell option disables the special escaping
behaviour of the backslash character in the emacs and vi built-in
editors. Particularly in the emacs editor, this makes it much easier to
go backward, insert a forgotten backslash into a command, and then
continue editing without having your next cursor key replace your
backslash with garbage. Note that Ctrl+V (or whatever other character
was set using 'stty lnext') always escapes all control characters in
either editing mode.
- A new --posix shell option has been added to ksh 93u+m that makes the
ksh language more compatible with other shells by following the POSIX
standard more closely. See the manual page for details. It is enabled by
default if ksh is invoked as sh, otherwise it is disabled by default.
- Enhancement to -G/--globstar: symbolic links to directories are now
followed if they match a normal (non-**) glob pattern. For example, if
'/lnk' is a symlink to a directory, '/lnk/**' and '/l?k/**' now work as
you would expect.
This reverts c0334e32, thereby restoring 936a1939.
After the fixes in 0a343244 and a2bc49be, the tilde expansion
disciplines work nicely, so they can come back to the 1.0 branch.
Defining a .sh.tilde.get or .sh.tilde.set discipline function to
extend tilde expansion works well as long as the discipline
function doesn't get interrupted (e.g. with Crtl+C) or produce an
error message. Either of those will cause the shell to become
unstable and crash.
This feature is now removed from the 1.0 branch as it is not ready
for prime time. It can return to a release branch if/when we manage
to fix it on the master branch.
Related: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/346
In May 2020, when every KornShell (ksh93) development project was
abandoned, development was rebooted in a new fork based on the last
stable AT&T version: ksh 93u+. Now, one year and hundreds of bug
fixes later, the first beta version is ready, and KornShell lives
again. This new fork is called ksh 93u+m as a permanent nod to its
origin; a standard semantic version number is added starting at
1.0.0-beta.1. Please test the beta and report any bugs you find,
or help us fix known bugs.
