If iffe re-ran a test because the source test script changed, but
the result file is unchanged, it didn't update the timestamp of the
result, so the source script remained newer. The build system then
kept pointlessly re-running the test on each rebuild. If a central
test script such as src/lib/libast/features/standards was changed,
this had cascading effects, e.g., causing libast to be rebuilt over
and over as I recompiled small changes elsewhere. Until now, my
workaround was to delete the entire 'arch' directory and start
over. Hopefully that will now no longer be needed.
src/cmd/INIT/iffe.sh:
- If a test output file has not changed after rerunning a test that
has changed, still update the output file's timestamp using
touch(1) to signal that the test has already been run.
Instead, we now link to the libm system math library where needed
by adding -lm to the relevant compile commands in the Mamfiles.
This is not needed on every system but never does any harm.
(This adds more custom edits to the Mamfiles, which were originally
generated from the nmake Makefiles. This takes us further from
restoring nmake, but that already wasn't going to happen anyway,
due to its many problems... the path forward will be to translate
the Mamfiles to some other, current make system such as GNU make.)
bin/package, src/cmd/INIT/package.sh:
- Remove LDFLAGS=-lm hack for DragonFly BSD, NetBSD and Solaris.
src/cmd/builtin/Mamfile,
src/cmd/ksh93/Mamfile,
src/lib/libdll/Mamfile:
- Add -lm where linking failed on any of the three mentioned OSs.
src/lib/libdll/features/dll:
- In the output test program, add missing #include <math.h>, fixing
unknown identifier errors on NetBSD (ldexp, ldexpl).
src/cmd/builtin/features/pty:
- Add missing #include <stdio.h> to make printf work on all systems
(this is just a feature test, no need to bother with sfio here).
src/lib/libast/features/stdio:
- Undef __FILE_T to avoid interference from system headers on QNX.
(There are still other problems preventing a build on QNX 6.5.0.
The shipped version of gcc seems to be broken.)
This now makes ksh build on DragonFly BSD.
bin/package, src/cmd/INIT/package.sh:
- DragonFly also needs the -lm hack for LDFLAGS.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/main.c, src/cmd/ksh93/tests/basic.sh:
- fixargs() doesn't work on DragonFly either
(re: 9b7c392a, 159fb9ee, cefe087d).
The following are backported from:
https://github.com/att/ast/issues/26#issuecomment-313927854https://github.com/att/ast/pull/19
src/lib/libast/comp/setlocale.c:
- Add missing #include <errno.h> since errno is used.
src/lib/libast/features/standards:
- Do not set any standards macros (_POSIX_SOURCE etc) on FreeBSD or
DragonflyBSD; they disable too much functionality on those.
src/lib/libast/features/wchar:
- Set _STDFILE_DECLARED on DragonFly, too.
src/lib/libast/include/sfio.h, src/lib/libast/include/sfio_t.h,
src/lib/libast/sfio/_sfopen.c, src/lib/libast/sfio/sfclrlock.c,
src/lib/libast/sfio/sfhdr.h, src/lib/libast/sfio/sfnew.c,
src/lib/libast/sfio/sfset.c:
- Rename SF_* macros to SFIO_* to avoid a conflict with system
headers.
src/lib/libast/string/strexpr.c:
- Rename error() to err() to avoid a conflict.
~- and ~+ are ksh93-specific tilde expansions that expand to
$OLDPWD and $PWD, respectively. On some systems, $OLDPWD is not set
on entry to the test script, because it is not exported to the
environment. This made it unset before any 'cd' was executed,
which (correctly) disabled ~- expansion.
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/basic.sh:
- Before testing 'cd ~-', make sure $OLDPWD is set by cd'ing to
/dev first (a directory guaranteed by POSIX).
Solaris /bin/ksh disables the SHOPT_PFSH compile option ("solaris
exec_attr(4) profile execution") with a patch. Since this option
applies to Solaris and variants only, let's upstream that change.
(Solaris now provides pfksh93 as a wrapper around ksh93, and does
the same for other shells, so profiling functionality is no longer
ksh-specific.)
If you want to re-enable it, add -DSHOPT_PFSH to your $CCFLAGS.
Original patch:
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/blob/master/components/ksh93/patches/150-CR7168611.patch
src/cmd/ksh93/Makefile:
- Add note that edits in Makefile are ineffective as we do not ship
nmake.
- Disable SHOPT_PFSH, cosmetically.
src/cmd/ksh93/Mamfile:
- Remove -DSHOPT_PFSH from all compiler commands.
bin/package, src/cmd/INIT/package.sh:
- It can depend on the compiler flags passed whether the compiler
produces code for a 64-bit architecture, so pass $CCFLAGS to
the compiler when testing whether it creates 64-bit object code.
README.md:
- Copy-edit of build instructions.
bin/package, src/cmd/INIT/package.sh:
- CCFLAGS overwrites the autodetected optimisation flags (e.g. -Os)
if set. Unfortunately, that also happened when we added something
to CCFLAGS for a release build or to add an extra flag needed by
Solaris. The fix is to use a new flags variable (KSH_RELFLAGS)
instead. This needs to be done in a different place as it needs
to be added to the mamake command as an assignment argument.
- Remove the Solaris CCFLAGS hack; see features/common below.
src/*/*/Mamfile:
- Add ${KSH_RELFLAGS} to all the compiler commands.
src/lib/libast/features/common:
- Enable POSIX standard on Solaris (i.e.: if __sun is defined) by
defining _XPG6 directly in the feature test that generates
ast_std.h, which is indirectly included by everything. This
removes the need to pass -D_XPG6 via CCFLAGS. (Doing so
automatically with gcc was not otherwise possible.)
src/cmd/INIT/cc.sol11.*:
- No longer pass -D_XPG6, as per above.
bin/package, src/cmd/INIT/package.sh:
- The code for detecting a 64-bit object file was seriously broken:
the temporary file name could contain '64' because it included $$,
the current PID, and 64-bit was detected if the output of 'file'
(which includes the complete file name) contained '64'. Fix by
removing the file name from 'file' output before testing.
- Also refactor that code a bit and remove the nonsensical test if
/bin/sh is a 64-bit binary, which is neither here nor there. It's
what the compiler produces that we need to care about.
src/cmd/INIT/make.probe:
- probe_optimize: Also try -O2 and -O, for compilers (such as
Solaris Studio cc) that do not support -Os.
- Use more robust code to loop through possible optimiser flags.
The versions from the Solaris patch require $CC_EXPLICIT to be set,
which is specific to the internal Solaris build environment.
src/cmd/INIT/cc.sol11.*:
- Cope without $CC_EXPLICIT set in environment; fall back to $CC
and if that is not set either, detect whether to use cc or gcc.
- Set appropriate flags for cc (Solaris Studio) or gcc, including
the necessary -D_XPG6 flag, without which ksh crashes on Solaris.
bin/package, src/cmd/INIT/package.sh:
- Update hack to add the -D_XPG6 flag so it applies to gcc only
(note: the src/cmd/INIT/cc.* scripts are never used for gcc).
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/main.c: fixargs():
- Erase the entire length of the command arguments buffer (the
space from argv[0] until environ[0]) so that remnants of longer
command arguments aren't left in 'ps' output when executing a
hashbang-ess script with a shorter command line.
- Disable fixargs() on FreeBSD. It has never had any effect on that
system; apparently it either requires another method to rewrite
arguments for 'ps' output purposes (which?) or it's not possible.
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/basic.sh:
- Skip the test if running on FreeBSD.
This reverts commit 600cb182.
$cc may be a system compiler binary, it is not necessarily a
src/cmd/INIT/cc.* wrapper script; so prefixing 'sh' is wrong.
This applies a patch from Solaris:
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/blob/master/components/ksh93/patches/160-CR7175995.patch
There is no public information on why it's needed, but it seems
sensible on the face of it. Using a file called '.profile' in the
PWD on login, without a directory path, is redundant at best, since
"$HOME/.profile" (e_profile, see data/msg.c) is already used. And
if the PWD is not $HOME at login time, it seems to me there are
serious problems and the last thing you want is to read some
random and probably dodgy '.profile' from the PWD.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/init.c: sh_init(): login_files[]:
- Remove redundant/problematic ".profile" entry.
This change was pulled in from:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oracle/solaris-userland/master/components/ksh93/patches/185-Bug17714341.patch
No public information about the reasons for this change is
available, but it seems reasonable to trust that the Solaris people
found a legitimate need for it.
src/cmd/ksh93/bltins/cd_pwd.c: b_cd():
- When determining the old PWD before 'cd', do not trust shp->pwd
but get and validate the current PWD using path_pwd().
$KSH_VERSION is initialised as a nameref to ${.sh.version}, but it
was not realiable as it could be overridden from the environment.
Some scripts do version checking so this would allow influencing
their execution.
This fix is inspired by the following Solaris patch:
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/blob/master/components/ksh93/patches/200-17435456.patch
but a different approach was needed, because the code has changed
(see 960a1a99).
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/init.c: env_init():
- Refuse to import $KSH_VERSION. Using strncmp(3) might be crude,
but it's effective and I can't figure out another way.
ksh 93u+ has a subshell leak bug where a variable exported in
function in a subshell is also visible in a different subshell.
This is long fixed in 93u+m, but there wasn't a regression test for
this particular bug yet, so this commit adds one.
This fixes the following bug filed with Solaris: "22964338 ksh93
appears to send SIGHUP to unrelated processes on occasion". It is
fixed by applying this patch by Lijo George from the Solaris repo:
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/blob/master/components/ksh93/patches/260-22964338.patch
The ksh2020 upstream rejected this, but if it's in production use
in Solaris, Solaris, it's probably good enough for 93u+m. If any
breakage is left, it can be fixed later.
https://github.com/att/ast/pull/1
src/cmd/ksh93/include/jobs.h,
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/fault.c,
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/jobs.c:
- Use a new job_hup() function instead of job_kill() to send SIGHUP
to job processes on termination. The new function checks if a job
is in fact still live before issuing SIGHUP to it.
This pulls a new version of sh_iosafefd() from:
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/blob/master/components/ksh93/patches/285-30771135.patch
It was written by Kurtis Rader for ksh2020:
https://github.com/att/ast/issues/198https://github.com/att/ast/pull/199
It is presumably better than the Red Hat version and also comes
with more regression test cases (although it still doesn't fix
modernish BUG_CSUBSTDO, which remains in the TODO file).
This commit does not go along with other peripheral changes from
that patch, i.e. a different name and location of this function.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/io.c:
- Replace sh_iosafefd() as above.
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/subshell.sh:
- Add and tweak tests from the patch.
This change is pulled from here:
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/blob/master/components/ksh93/patches/280-23332860.patch
Info and reproducers:
https://github.com/att/ast/issues/36
In a -c script (like ksh -c 'commands'), the last command
misredirects standard output if an EXIT or ERR trap is set.
This appears to be a side effect of the optimisation that
runs the last command without forking.
This applies a patch by George Lijo that flags these specific
cases and disables the optimisation.
src/cmd/ksh93/include/defs.h,
src/cmd/ksh93/bltins/trap.c,
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/init.c,
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/main.c,
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/xec.c:
- Apply patch as above.
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/io.sh:
- Add the reproducers from the bug report as regression tests.
This change is pulled from here:
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/blob/master/components/ksh93/patches/275-20855453.patchhttps://github.com/att/ast/issues/30
George Lijo wrote on 17 Feb 2017:
> Here's a reproducible testcase on a Solaris11 host running
> ksh93u+(2012-08-01).
> $ cat a.sh
> #!/bin/sh
>
> AAA="aaa"
> echo 'insert character'
> BBB=`echo ${AAA} | sed "s/aaa/bbb/g"`
> logger "variable BBB = ${BBB}"
>
> $ cat t.sh
> #!/bin/ksh
>
> sleep 10
> /bin/ksh ./a.sh
> exit 0
>
> $
>
> $ ./t.sh
>
> The expected result is:
>
> Apr 9 12:43:34 lab user: [ID 702911 user.notice] variable BBB = bbb
>
> because variable "BBB" is supposed to be set to 'bbb' in a.sh.
>
> But if the parent shell is terminated, the variable is wrongly set.
>
> user@xxxxx$ telnet lab
> ...
> $ ./t.sh & <--- Run t.sh in background.
> [1] 2067
> $ logout <--- CTRL + D to exit while t.sh is running.
> Connection to lab closed by foreign host.
>
> Again, access the system and check the output:
>
> user@xxxxx$ telnet lab
> ...
> $ tail -f /var/adm/messages
> :
> Apr 9 12:47:47 lab user: [ID 702911 user.notice] variable BBB =
> insert character <--- !!!
> Apr 9 12:47:47 lab bbb
> <--- !!!
>
> Thus the variable is wrongly set. (The previous echo string was
> not cleared.)
>
> The issue happens because the EIO error during the logout is not
> handled properly.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/io.c,
src/lib/libast/include/error.h:
- Amend the ERROR_PIPE() macro to check for EIO as well as EPIPE
and ECONNRESET.
This change is pulled from here:
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/blob/master/components/ksh93/patches/240-22461939.patch
Information:
https://github.com/att/ast/issues/6
George Lijo wrote on 14 Mar 2016:
> I observed this issue in a Solaris 11 system on ksh2012-08-01
> [...]. The issue can be reproduced if we add Asian locales to
> ibus (such as Korean). In the ksh93 shell prompt, input some
> Asian character. ksh promptly dumps core [...].
>
> The coredump happens at the following line no 320 in
> src/cmd/ksh93/edit/emacs.c
> if(c!='\t' && c!=ESC && !isdigit(c)).
>
> I referred the vi.c code and added the digit(c) macro, i.e.
> ((c&~STRIP)==0 && isdigit(c)) and replaced the isdigit(c) usage
> with the "digit(c)" macro.
This change is pulled from here:
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/blob/master/components/ksh93/patches/211-21547336.patch
src/cmd/ksh93/bltins/cd_pwd.c: b_cd():
- The functions path_pwd() and path_relative() in sh/path.c may
return a pointer to e_dot[] (".") as a fallback if they fail to
determine a path. This is a string in read-only memory
(data/msg.c), so must not be freed. A pointer to that string may
end up in sh.pwd (== shp->pwd), so b_cd() needs a check for that.
This change is pulled from here:
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/blob/master/components/ksh93/patches/110-CR7061011.patch
Unfortunately there is no publicly available documentation on why
this change was needed. We just have to assume the Solaris people
knew what they were doing. ksh2020 upstreamed this too (as well as
all the other Solaris patches applied here).
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/nvdisc.c: setdisc():
- If no <event> is known for <np>, return a null pointer instead
of a pointer to the empty string.
The forking fix implemented in 102868f8 and 9d428f8f, which stops
the main shell's hash table from being cleared if PATH is changed
in a subshell, can cause a significant performance penalty for
certain scripts that do something like
( PATH=... command foo )
in a subshell, especially if done repeatedly. This is because the
hash table is cleared (and hence a subshell forks) even for
temporary PATH assignments preceding commands.
It also just plain doesn't work. For instance:
$ hash -r; (ls) >/dev/null; hash
ls=/bin/ls
Simply running an external command in a subshell caches the path in
the hash table that is shared with a main shell. To remedy this, we
would have to fork the subshell before forking any external
command. And that would be an unacceptable performance regression.
Virtual subshells do not need to fork when changing PATH if they
get their own hash tables. This commit adds these. The code for
alias subshell trees (which was removed in ec888867 because they
were broken and unneeded) provided the beginning of a template for
their implementation.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/subshell.c:
- struct subshell: Add strack pointer to subshell hash table.
- Add sh_subtracktree(): return pointer to subshell hash table.
- sh_subfuntree(): Refactor a bit for legibility.
- sh_subshell(): Add code for cleaning up subshell hash table.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/name.c:
- nv_putval(): Remove code to fork a subshell upon resetting PATH.
- nv_rehash(): When in a subshell, invalidate a hash table entry
for a subshell by creating the subshell scope if needed, then
giving that entry the NV_NOALIAS attribute to invalidate it.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/path.c: path_search():
- To set a tracked alias/hash table entry, use sh_subtracktree()
and pass the HASH_NOSCOPE flag to nv_search() so that any new
entries are added to the current subshell table (if any) and do
not influence any parent scopes.
src/cmd/ksh93/bltins/typeset.c: b_alias():
- b_alias(): For hash table entries, use sh_subtracktree() instead
of forking a subshell. Keep forking for normal aliases.
- setall(): To set a tracked alias/hash table entry, pass the
HASH_NOSCOPE flag to nv_search() so that any new entries are
added to the current subshell table (if any) and do not influence
any parent scopes.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/init.c: put_restricted():
- Update code for clearing the hash table (when changing $PATH) to
use sh_subtracktree().
src/cmd/ksh93/bltins/cd_pwd.c:
- When invalidating path name bindings to relative paths, use the
subshell hash tree if applicable by calling sh_subtracktree().
- rehash(): Call nv_rehash() instead of _nv_unset()ting the hash
table entry; this is needed to work correctly in subshells.
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/leaks.sh:
- Add leak tests for various PATH-related operations in the main
shell and in a virtual subshell.
- Several pre-existing memory leaks are exposed by the new tests
(I've confirmed these in 93u+). The tests are disabled and marked
TODO for now, as these bugs have not yet been fixed.
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/subshell.sh:
- Update.
Resolves: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/66
The SHOPT_2DMATCH code block in sh_setmatch() modifies the 'ap'
pointer, which is initialised as nv_arrayptr(SH_MATCHNOD). This
caused a (rarely occurring) segfault in the following line near the
end of the function:
ap->nelem -= x;
as this line assumed that 'ap' still had the initial value.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/init.c: sh_setmatch():
- On init, save ap in ap_save and use ap_save instead of ap where
it should be pointing to SH_MATCHNOD. This also allows removing
two redundant nv_arrayptr(SH_MATCHNOD) calls, slightly increasing
the efficiency of this function.
Scripts that use floating point shell arithmetic confusingly fail
with 'arithmetic syntax error' when running in a locale that uses
',' as the radix point, because '.' is generally assumed by
scripts. The error message is confounding as the problem is not a
syntax error but a locale that is incompatible with the script.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/arith.c:
- If the locale's radix point is not '.' but a '.' is found in its
place, issue an informative error message that instructs setting
LC_NUMERIC=C.
Resolves: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/145
@stephane-chazelas writes:
> Per POSIX[*], cd should skip the $CDPATH processing if the first
> component of the directory given to cd is . or ...
>
> Yet, with ksh93u+m 2021-01-03 at least, while that's OK with ..,
> it's not with . with or without the posix option:
>
> $ CDPATH=/ ./ksh -o posix -c 'cd -P ./etc && pwd'
> /etc
> /etc
>
> It seems to be a regression introduced with ksh93u+ as I can't
> reproduce it with ksh93u or any version prior to that. I can also
> reproduce in u+, v- and the ksh2020 from the Ubuntu 20.04
> package.
src/cmd/ksh93/bltins/cd_pwd.c: b_cd():
- Skip $CDPATH processing not only if the path is absolute, but
also if the initial path component is '.' or '..' (in the latter
case the $CDPATH processing was done but appeared to be a no-op).
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/builtins.sh:
- Add regression test.
[*] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2018edition/utilities/cd.html
Fixes: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/151
As of this commit, ksh 93u+m has a standard semantic version number
<https://semver.org/>, beginning with 1.0.0-alpha. This is added to
the version string in a way that should be compatible with scripts
parsing ${.sh.version} or $(ksh --version). This addition does not
replace the release date and does not affect $((.sh.version)).
For non-release builds, the version string will be:
FORK/VERSION+HASH YYYY-MM-DD
e.g.: 93u+m/1.0.0-alpha+41ef7f76 2021-01-03
For release builds, it will be:
FORK/VERSION YYYY-MM-DD
e.g.: 93u+m/1.0.0 2021-01-03
It is now automatically decided by bin/package whether to build a
release or development build. When building from a directory that
is not a git repository, or if the current git branch name starts
with a number (e.g. '1.0'), the release build is enabled; otherwise
a development build is the default. This is arranged by adding -D
flags to $CCFLAGS as described below. These flags are prepended to
$CCFLAGS, so they can be overridden by adding your own -D or -U
flags via the environment.
In addition, AST vmalloc is disabled for release builds as of this
commit, forcing the use of the OS's standard malloc(3). In 2021,
this is generally more reliable, faster, and more economical with
memory than AST vmalloc. Several memory leaks and crashing bugs are
avoided, e.g.: <https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/95>.
For development builds, vmalloc stays enabled (along with its known
bugs) because this allows the use of the vmstat builtin, making it
much more efficient to test for memory leaks. For more info, see
the regression test script: src/cmd/ksh93/tests/leaks.sh
bin/package, src/cmd/INIT/package.sh:
- Add flags for build type. In $CCFLAGS, define _AST_ksh_release if
we're not on any git branch or on a git branch whose name starts
with a number. Otherwise, define _AST_git_commit as the first 8
characters of the current git commit hash.
src/lib/libast/features/vmalloc:
- If _AST_ksh_release is defined, disable vmalloc and force use of
the operating system's malloc. Discussion:
https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/95
src/cmd/ksh93/include/version.h:
- Define new format for version string, adding a semantic version
number as well as (for non-release builds) the git commit hash.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/init.c: e_version[]:
- Add a 'v' to the ${.sh.version} feature string if ksh was
compiled with vmalloc enabled. This allows scripts, such as
regression tests, to detect this.
src/cmd/ksh93/data/builtins.c: sh_optksh[]:
- Add a copyright line crediting the contributors to ksh 93u+m.
Resolves: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/95
When starting ksh +s, it gets stuck in an infinite loop continually
trying to parse its own binary as a shell script and rejecting it:
$ arch/linux.i386-64/bin/ksh +s
arch/linux.i386-64/bin/ksh: arch/linux.i386-64/bin/ksh: cannot execute [Exec format error]
arch/linux.i386-64/bin/ksh: arch/linux.i386-64/bin/ksh: cannot execute [Exec format error]
arch/linux.i386-64/bin/ksh: arch/linux.i386-64/bin/ksh: cannot execute [Exec format error]
arch/linux.i386-64/bin/ksh: arch/linux.i386-64/bin/ksh: cannot execute [Exec format error]
arch/linux.i386-64/bin/ksh: arch/linux.i386-64/bin/ksh: cannot execute [Exec format error]
[...]
$ echo 'echo "this is stdin"' | arch/linux.i386-64/bin/ksh +s
arch/linux.i386-64/bin/ksh: arch/linux.i386-64/bin/ksh: cannot execute [Exec format error]
(no loop, but still ksh trying to parse itself)
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/init.c: sh_init():
- When forcing on the '-s' option upon finding no command
arguments, also update sh.offoptions, a.k.a. shp->offoptions.
This avoids the inconsistent state causing this problem.
In main.c, there is:
if(sh_isoption(SH_SFLAG))
fdin = 0;
else
(code to open $0 as a file)
This was entering the else block because sh_isoption(SH_SFLAG)
was returning 0, and $0 is set to the ksh binary as it is
supposed to when no other script is provided. When I looked for
why sh_isoption was returning 0, I found main.c's
for(i=0; i<elementsof(shp->offoptions.v); i++)
shp->options.v[i] &= ~shp->offoptions.v[i];
Before this loop, shp->offoptions tracks which options were
explicitly disabled by the user on the command line. The effect
of this loop is to make "explicitly disabled" take precedence
over "implicitly enabled". My patch removes the registration of
the +s option.
Fixes: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/150
Co-authored-by: Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.org>
A recent change in Github's Ubuntu test runners exposed a problem
in the way the all_paths test function replicates 'whence -a'
functionality, causing spurious regression test failures.
The problem occurs when e.g. /bin is a symlink to /usr/bin, but
both are in $PATH. The all_paths function treats them as separate
but 'whence -a' detects a duplicate and will not output /usr/bin/*.
I have not succeeded in making all_paths match 'whence -a' exactly.
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/path.sh: function all_paths:
- Using the -ef test expression operator, remove entries from $PATH
that point to the same directory as another entry in $PATH (e.g.
when /bin is a symlink to /usr/bin but both are in $PATH).
Avoiding such dupes works around the problem.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/name.c:
- The Empty macro (a constant pointer to the empty string) is already
defined in include/defs.h, so does not need to be repeated here.