- Fixed a few minor typos and updated the list of tested systems in
src/cmd/ksh93/README.
- vmmopen.c: Include the ast.h header to fix a build error on Haiku
caused by the otherwise undefined NoN macro (re: 05f0c1b1).
The bug is that "$*", and related expansions such as "${arr[*]}",
etc., do pattern matching if the first character of $IFS is a
wildcard. For example, the following:
IFS=*
set -- F ''
case BUGFREE in
BUG"$*") echo bug ;;
esac
outputs 'bug'. This bug can be reproduced in every other glob
pattern matching context as well, but not in pathname expansion.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/macro.c: varsub():
- When joining fields into one for a "$*"-type expansion, check if
a glob pattern matching operation follows (mp->pattern is set).
If so, write a preceding backslash to escape the separator.
Resolves: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/489
Resolves: https://github.com/att/ast/issues/12
Attempting to tab-complete the only member of a directory while in
vi mode switches to "control" under the following conditions:
1. pwd is outside of the directory
2. No part of the basename has been typed in (e.g., starting with
vim TEST/t will autocomplete to vim TEST/test, but starting
with vim TEST/ will not).
Also, trying to type with "input" or "replace" fails afterwards
until a new line has been generated (either with ctrl + c or the
j/k keys in control mode).
src/cmd/ksh93/edit/vi.c: textmod():
- The strange completion behavior in vi mode for single-member
directories appears to be at least partially due to completion
failing to use \ or * mode from outside of pwd. Checking for
e_nlist directly from vi.c — 0 unless in = mode — allows for
entering the else loop at line 2575 to reach APPEND mode.
Resolves: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/485
I made a mistake in sh.reinit() which caused $PPID to be set to the
new process ID, not the parent process ID. This commit fixes it by
introducing, updating and using sh.current_ppid, so we continue to
minimise context switches due to getpid(2)/getppid(2) system calls.
Thanks to Geoff Clare for the report.
The arguments to the binary numerical comparison operators (-eq,
-gt, etc.) in the [[ and test/[ commands are treated as arithmetic
expressions, even if $((...)) is not used. But there is some
seriously incorrect behaviour:
Reproducers (all should output 0/true):
$ [[ 0x0A -eq 10 ]]; echo $?
1
$ [[ 1+0x0A -eq 11 ]]; echo $?
0
$ (set --posix; [[ 010 -eq 8 ]]); echo $?
1
$ (set --posix; [[ +010 -eq 8 ]]); echo $?
0
$ [[ 0xA -eq 10 ]]; echo $?
1
$ xA=10; [[ 0xA -eq 10 ]]; echo $?
0
$ xA=WTF; [[ 0xA -eq 10 ]]; echo $?
ksh: WTF: parameter not set
(POSIX mode enables the recognition of the initial 0 as a prefix
indicating an octal number in arithmetic expressions.)
The cause is the two 'while' loops in this section in test_binop()
in src/cmd/ksh93/bltins/test.c:
502: if(op&TEST_ARITH)
503: {
504: while(*left=='0')
505: left++;
506: while(*right=='0')
507: right++;
508: lnum = sh_arith(left);
509: rnum = sh_arith(right);
510: }
So initial zeros are unconditionally skipped. Ostensibly this is to
disable the recognition of the initial zero as an octal prefix as
well as 0x as a hexadecimal prefix. This would be okay for
enforcing a decimal-only limitation for simple numbers, but to do
this for arithmetic expressions is flagrantly incorrect, to say the
least. (insert standard rant about AT&T quality standards here)
The fix for '[[' is simply to delete the two 'while' loops. But
that creates a problem for the deprecated-but-standard 'test'/'['
command, which also uses the test_binop() function. According to
POSIX, test/[ only parses simple decimal numbers, so octal, etc. is
not a thing. But, after that fix, 'test 08 -eq 10' in POSIX mode
yields true, which is unlike every other shell. (Note that this is
unlike [[ 08 -eq 10 ]], which yields true on bash because '[['
parses operands as arithmetic expressions.)
For test/[ in non-POSIX mode, we don't need to change anything. For
POSIX mode, we should only parse literal decimal numbers for these
operators in test/[, disallowing unexpanded arithmetic expressions.
This makes ksh's POSIX-mode test/[ act like every other shell and
like external .../bin/test commands shipped by OSs.
src/cmd/ksh93/bltins/text.c: test_binop():
- Correct a type mismatch. The left and right hand numbers should
be Sfdouble_t, the maximum double length on the current system,
and the type that sh_arith() returns. Instead, long double
(typeset -lF) values were reduced to double (typeset -F) before
comparing!
- For test/[ in POSIX, only accept simple decimal numbers: use
strtold() instead of sh_arith(). Do skip initial zeros here as
this disables the recognition of the hexadecimal prefix. Throw an
error on an invalid decimal number. Floating point constants are
still parsed, but that's fine as this does not cause any
incompatibility with POSIX.
- For code legibility, move handling of TEST_EQ, etc. to within the
if(op&TEST_ARITH) block. This also allows lnum and rnum to be
local to that block.
We're nearly there!
I intend to release ksh 93u+m/1.0.0 on 2022-08-01, precisely ten
years after the last canonical 93u+ release.
We have a week until then, so here's a release candidate. Please
try as hard as you can to break it, and to help fix known bugs.
As of this commit, the 1.0 branch is feature-frozen and will only
get bugfixes.
src/cmd/ksh93/fun/man:
- Last-minute fix: .man.try_os_man(): do not look for arguments
with / in section 1 and 8; this can cause false positives.
This autoloadable function activates a feature similar to 'shopt -s
autocd' in bash: type only a directory name to change directory.
It uses the DEBUG trap to work. See the file for details.
This adds a new 'man' function in src/cmd/ksh93/fun/man, meant for
autoload. This integrates the --man self-documentation of ksh
built-in and external AST commands with your system's 'man' command
so you can conveniently use 'man' for all commands, whether
built-in or external. See the file for details.
Since 'command -x' provides xargs-like functionality to repeatedly
run external commands if the argument list is too long for one
invocation, it makes little sense to use with built-ins. So I
decided that 'command -x' should double as a way to guarantee
running an external command. However, it was only bypassing plain
built-ins and not path-bound builtins (the ones that show up with a
virtual directory path name in the output of 'builtin').
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/path.c:
- Before looking for a path-bound built-in, check that the SH_XARG
state bit is not on. This needs to be done in path_absolute() as
well as in path_spawn().
This commit makes three interrelated changes.
First, the code for erasing the command line before redrawing it
upon a window size change is simplified and modernised. Instead of
erasing the line with lots of spaces, it now uses the sequence
obtained from 'tput ed' (usually ESC, '[', 'J') to "erase to the
end of screen". This avoids messing up the detection and automatic
redrawing of wrapped lines on terminals such as Apple Terminal.app.
Second, the -b/--notify option is made more usable. When it is on
and either the vi or emacs/gmacs line editor is in use, 'Done' and
similar notifications are now buffered and trigger a command line
redraw as if the window size changed, and the redraw routine prints
that notify buffer between erasing and redrawing the commmnd line.
The effect is that the notification appears to magically insert
itself directly above the line you're typing. (The notification
behaviour when not in the shell line editor, e.g. while running
commands such as external editors, is unchanged.)
Third, a bug is fixed that caused -b/--notify to only report on one
job when more than one terminated at the same time. The rest was
reported on the next command line as if -b were not on. Reproducer:
$ set -b; sleep 1 & sleep 1 & sleep 1 &
This commit also includes a fair number of other window size and
$COLUMNS/$LINES handling tweaks that made all this easier, not all
of which are mentioned below.
src/cmd/ksh93/include/fault.h,
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/fault.c:
- Replace sh_update_columns_lines with a new sh_winsize() function.
It calls astwinsize() and is to be used instead of it, and
instead of nv_getval(LINES) and nv_getval(COLUMNS) calls. It:
- Allows passing one or neither of lines or cols pointers.
- Updates COLUMNS and LINES, but only if they actually changed
from the last values. This makes .set discipline functions
defined for these variables more useful.
- Sets the sh.winch flag, but only if COLUMNS changes. If only
the height changes, the command line does not need redrawing.
src/cmd/ksh93/include/io.h:
- Add sh_editor_active() that allows checking whether one of vi,
emacs or gmacs is active without onerous #if SHOPT_* directives.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/jobs.c: job_reap():
- Remove the fix backported in fc655f1a, which was really just a
workaround that papered over the real bug.
- Move a check for errno==ECHILD so it is only done when waitpid()
returns an error (pid < 0); the check was not correct because C
library functions that do not error out also do not change errno.
- Move the SH_NOTIFY && SH_TTYWAIT code section to within the
while(1) loop so it is run for each job, not only the
last-processed one. This fixes the bug where only one job was
notified when more than one ended at the same time.
- In that section, check if an editor is active; if so, set the
output file for job_list() to sh.notifybuffer instead of standard
error, list the jobs without the initial newline (JOB_NLFLAG),
and trigger a command line redraw by setting sh.winch.
src/cmd/ksh93/edit/edit.c:
- Obtain not just CURSOR_UP but also ERASE_EOS (renamed from
KILL_LINE) using 'tput'. The latter had the ANSI sequence
hardcoded. Define a couple of TPUT_* macros to make it easier to
deal with terminfo/termcap codes.
- Add get_tput() to make it easier to get several tput values
robustly (with SIGINT blocked, trace disabled, etc.)
- ed_crlf(): Removed. Going by those ancient #ifdefs, nothing that
93u+m will ever run on requires a '\r' before a '\n' to start a
new line on the terminal. Plus, as of 93u+, there were already
several spots in emacs.c and vi.c where it printed a sole '\n'.
- ed_read():
- Simplify/modernise command line erase using ERASE_EOS.
- Between erasing and redrawing, print the contents of the notify
buffer. This has the effect of inserting notifications above
the command line while the user is typing.
src/cmd/ksh93/features/cmds:
- To detect terminfo vs termcap codes, use all three codes we're
currently using. This matters on at least on my system (macOS
10.14.6) in which /usr/bin/tput has incomplete terminfo support
(no 'ed') but complete termcap support!
An old annoyance of mine: when an error occurs in a ksh function,
the function name is reported in the error message, but the same is
not done for POSIX functions.
Since POSIX functions are treated as glorified dot scripts,
b_dot_cmd() needs an errorpush() call and an assignment to
error_info.id to make this happen for both POSIX functions and dot
scripts. This is the same thing that sh_funscope() does for ksh
functions. There is now no difference from ksh functions in how
these report errors.
Note that the sh_popcontext() macro includes an errorpop() call, so
that does not need to be added. See fault.h and error.h.
The pseudorandom generator generates a reproducible sequnece of
values after seeding it with a known value. But:
$ (RANDOM=1; echo $RANDOM; echo $RANDOM)
2100
18270
$ (RANDOM=1; echo $RANDOM; ls >/dev/null; echo $RANDOM)
2100
30107
Since RANDOM was seeded with a specific value, the two command
lines should output the same pair of numbers. Running 'ls' in the
middle should make no difference.
The cause is a nv_getval(RANDNOD) call in xec.c, case TFORK, that
is run for all TFORK cases, in the parent process -- including
background jobs and external commands. What should happen instead
is that $RANDOM is reseeded in the child process.
This bug is in every version of ksh93 since before 1995.
There is also an opportunity for optimisation. As of 396b388e, the
RANDOM seed may be invalidated by setting rand_last to -2,
triggering a reseed the next time a $RANDOM value is obtained. This
was done to optimise the virtual subshell mechanism. But that can
also be used to eliminate unconditional reseeding elsewhere. So as
of this commit, RANDOM is never (re)seeded until it's used.
src/cmd/ksh93/include/variables.h,
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/subshell.c:
- Add RAND_SEED_INVALIDATED macro, a single source of truth for the
value that triggers a reseeding in sh_save_rand_seed().
- Add convenient sh_invalidate_rand_seed() function macro.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/init.c,
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/xec.c:
- Optimisation: invalidate seed instead of reseeding directly.
- sh_exec(): case TFORK: Delete the nv_getval(RANDNOD) call. Add a
sh_invalidate_rand_seed() to the child part. This fixes the bug.
When running an external command while trapping Ctrl+C via SIGINT,
and set -b is on, then a spurious Done job control message is
printed. No background job was executed.
$ trap 'ls' INT
$ set -b
$ <Ctrl+C>[file listing follows]
[1] + Done set -b
In jobs.c (487-493), job_reap() calls job_list() to list a running
or completed background job, passing the JOB_NFLAG bit to only
print jobs with the P_NOTIFY flag. But the 'ls' in the trap is not
a background job. So it is getting the P_NOTIFY flag by mistake.
In fact all processes get the P_NOTIFY flag by default when they
terminate. Somehow the shell normally does not follow a code path
that calls job_list() for foreground processes, but does when
running one from a trap. I have not yet figured out how that works.
What I do know is that there is no reason why non-background
processes should ever have the P_NOTIFY flag set on termination,
because those should never print any 'Done' messages. And we seem
to have a handy P_BG flag that is set for background processes; we
can check for this before setting P_NOTIFY. The only thing is that
flag is only compiled in if SHOPT_BGX is enabled, as it was added
to support that functionality.
For some reason I am unable to reproduce the bug in a pty session,
so there is no pty.sh regression test.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/jobs.c:
- Rename misleadingly named P_FG flag to P_MOVED2FG; this flag is
not set for all foreground processes but only for processes moved
to the foreground by job_switch(), called by the fg command.
- Compile in the P_BG flag even when SHOPT_BGX is not enabled. We
need to set this flag to check for a background job.
- job_reap(): Do not set the P_NOTIFY flag for all terminated
processes, but only for those with P_BG set.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/xec.c: sh_fork():
- Also pass special argument 1 for background job to job_post() if
SHOPT_BGX is not enabled. This is what gets it to set P_BG.
- Simplify 5 lines of convoluted code into 1.
Resolves: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/481
Switching the function scope to a parent scope by assigning to
.sh.level (SH_LEVELNOD) leaves the shell in an inconsistent state,
causing invalid-free and/or use-after-free bugs. The intention of
.sh.level was always to temporarily switch scopes inside a DEBUG
trap, so this commit minimises the pitfalls and instability by
imposing some sensible limitations:
1. .sh.level is now a read-only variable except while executing a
DEBUG trap;
2. while it's writeable, attempts to unset .sh.level or to change
its attributes are ignored;
3. attempts to set a discipline function for .sh.level are ignored;
4. it is an error to set a level < 0 or > the current scope.
Even more crashing bugs are fixed by simplifiying the handling and
initialisation of .sh.level and by exempting it completely from
virtual subshell scoping (to which it's irrelevant).
TODO: one thing remains: scope corruption and use-after-free happen
when using the '.' command inside a DEBUG trap with ${.sh.level}
changed. Behaviour same as before this commit. To be investigated.
All changed files:
- Consistently use the int16_t type for level values as that is the
type of its non-pointer storage in SH_LEVELNOD.
- Update .sh.level by using an update_sh_level() macro that assigns
directly to the node value, then restores the scope if needed.
- To eliminate implicit typecasts, use the same int16_t type (the
type used by short ints such as SH_LEVELNOD) for all variables
containing a function and/or dot script level.
src/cmd/ksh93/include/variables.h:
- Add update_sh_level() macro.
src/cmd/ksh93/include/name.h,
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/macro.c:
- Add a nv_nonptr() macro that checks attributes for a non-pointer
value -- currently only signed or unsigned short integer value,
accessed via the 's' member of 'union Value' (e.g. np->nvalue.s).
- nv_isnull(): To avoid undefined behaviour, check for attributes
indicating a non-pointer value before accessing the nvalue.cp
pointer (re: 5aba0c72).
- varsub(): In the set/unset check, remove the now-redundant
exception for SH_LEVELNOD.
src/cmd/ksh93/data/variables.c,
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/init.c:
- shtab_variables[]: Make .sh.level a read-only short integer.
- sh_inittree(): To avoid undefined behaviour, do not assign to the
'union Value' char pointer if the attribute indicates a non-
pointer short integer value. Instead, the table value is ignored.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/subshell.c: sh_assignok():
- Never create a subshell scope for SH_LEVELNOD.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/xec.c:
- Get rid of 'struct Level' and its maxlevel member. This was only
used in put_level() to check for an out of range assignment, but
this can be trivially done by checking sh.fn_depth+sh.dot_depth.
- This in turn allows further simplification that reduces init for
.sh.level to a single nv_disc() call in sh_debug(), so get rid of
init_level().
- put_level(): Throw a "level out of range" error if assigned a
wrong level.
- sh_debug():
- Turn off the NV_RDONLY (read-only) attribute for SH_LEVELNOD
while executing the DEBUG trap.
- Restore the current scope when trap execution is finished.
- sh_funct(): Remove all .sh.level handling. POSIX functions (and
dot scripts) already handle it in b_dot_cmd(), so sh_funct(),
which is used by both, is the wrong place to do it.
- sh_funscope(): Update .sh.level for ksh syntax functions here
instead. Also, do not bother to initialise its discipline here,
as it can now only be changed in a DEBUG trap.
src/cmd/ksh93/bltins/typeset.c: setall():
- When it's not read-only, ignore all attribute changes for
.sh.level, as changing the attributes would crash the shell.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/nvdisc.c: nv_setdisc():
- Ignore all attempts to set a discipline function for .sh.level,
as doing this would crash the shell.
src/cmd/ksh93/bltins/misc.c: b_dot_cmd():
- Bug fix: also update .sh.level when quitting a dot script.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/name.c:
- _nv_unset():
- To avoid an inconsistent state, ignore all attempts to unset
.sh.level.
- To avoid undefined behaviour, do not zero np->nvalue.cp if
attributes for np indicate a non-pointer value (the actual bit
value of a null pointer is not defined by the standard, so
there is no guarantee that zeroing .cp will zero .s).
- sh_setscope(): For consistency, always set error_info.id (the
command name for error messages) to the new scope's cmdname.
Previously this was only done for two calls of this function.
- nv_name(): Fix a crashing bug by checking that np->nvname is a
non-null pointer before dereferencing it.
src/cmd/ksh93/include/nval.h:
- The NV_UINT16P macro (which is unsigned NV_INT16P) had a typo in
it, which went unnoticed for many years because it's not directly
used (though its bit flags are set and used indirectly). Let's
fix it anyway and keep it for completeness' sake.
The lexer use 256-byte state tables (see data/lexstates.c), one
byte per possible value for the (unsigned) char type. But the sp
variable used as an index to a state table in loops like this...
while((n = state[*sp++]) == 0)
;
...is a char*, a pointer to a char. The C standard does not define
if the char type is signed or not (!). On clang and gcc, it is
signed. That means that, whenever a single-byte, high-bit (> 127)
character is encountered, the value wraps around to negative, and a
read occurs outside of the actual state table, causing potentially
incorrect behaviour or a crash.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/lex.c:
- endword(): Make sp and three related variables explicitly
unsigned char pointers. This requires a bunch of annoying
typecasts to stop compilers complaining; so be it.
- To avoid even more typecasts, make stack_shift() follow suit.
- Reorder variable declarations for legibility.
Reproducer: Compile a ksh with AddressSanitizer. In that ksh, edit
the last command line with 'fc', insert an empty line at the start,
and save. Now use the up-arrow to retrieve the empty line. Ksh
aborts on history.c line 1011 as hist_copy() tries to read before
the beginning of the buffer pointed to by s1.
src/cmd/ksh93/edit/history.c: hist_copy():
- Verify that the s1 pointer was increased from the original s1
before trying to read the character *(s1-1).
Reproducer:
$ x=([x]=1 [y)
-ksh: syntax error: `)' unexpected
$ [[ -z $x ]]
-ksh: [[ -z ]]: not found
Any '[[' command following that syntax error will fail similarly;
the whole of it (after variable expansion) is incorrectly looked up
as a command name. The syntax error must be generated by an
associative array assignment (with or without an explicit typeset
-A) with at least one valid assignment element followed by an
invalid assignment element starting with '[' but not containing
']='.
This seems to be another bug that is in every ksh93 version ever.
I've confirmed that ksh 1993-12-28 s+ and ksh2020 fail identically.
Presumably, so does everything in between.
Analysis:
The syntax error function, sh_syntax(), calls lexopen() in mode 0
to reset the lexer state. There is a variable that isn't getting
reset there though it should be. Using systematic elimination I
found that the variable that needs to be reset is lp->assignok (set
"when name=value is legal"). If it is set, '[[' is not processed.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/lex.c: lexopen():
- Reset 'assignok' in the lexer state (regardless of mode).
- In the mode 0 total lexer state reinit, several members of lexd
(struct _shlex_pvt_lexdata_) were not getting reset; just memset
the whole thing to zero.
Note for backporters: this change requires commit da97587e to
be correct. That commit took the stack size and pointer (lex_max
and *lex_match) out of this struct; those should not be reset!
Resolves: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/486
Reproducer:
$ fn=([foo_key]=foo_val [bar_key])
-ksh: [bar_key]: not found
Expected output:
-ksh: syntax error: `[bar_key]' unexpected
As soon as one correct associative array assignment element has
been processed, a subsequent one, starting with '[' but not
containing ']=', is incorrectly seen as a command to execute.
If a command '[bar_key]' existed on $PATH, it would have been run.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/parse.c: simple():
- In the syntax check for associative array assignments, don't just
check for an initial '[' but also verify the presence of ']='.
Thanks to @JohnoKing for finding this bug.
Resolves: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/427
Grammatically, redirections may occur anywhere within a command
line and are removed after processing them, whereas a process
substitution (<(commandlist) or >(commandlist)) is replaced by a
file name which should be treated as just another simple word.
So the following should not be a syntax error:
$ cat </dev/null <(true)
-ksh: syntax error: `)' unexpected
$ cat </dev/null >(true)
-ksh: syntax error: `)' unexpected
$ cat >/dev/null <(true)
-ksh: syntax error: `)' unexpected
$ cat >/dev/null >(true)
-ksh: syntax error: `)' unexpected
This bug is in every ksh93 version.
The problem is in the parser (parse.c). The process substitution is
misparsed as a redirection due to inout() recursively parsing
multiple redirections without recognising process substitutions.
inout() is mistaking '<(' for '<' and '>(' for '>', which explains
the incorrect syntax error.
This also causes the following to fail to detect a syntax error:
$ cat >&1 <(README.md
[the contents of README.md are shown]
...and other syntax errors detected in the wrong spot, for example:
$ { true; } <(echo wrong)
-ksh: syntax error: `wrong' unexpected
which should be:
-ksh: syntax error: `<(' unexpected
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/parse.c:
- Add global inout_found_procsub flag.
- inout(): On encountering a process substitution, set this flag
and return, otherwise clear the flag.
- simple(): After calling inout(), check this flag and, if set,
jump back to where process substitutions are parsed.
Resolves: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/418
Reproducer:
$ ksh -c 'trap "echo OK" TERM; (kill -s TERM $$)'
Actual output: none
Expected output: OK
The bug is only triggered if 'kill' is executed from a subshell
that is optimised out due to being the last command in the script.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/xec.c: sh_exec(): case TPAR:
- Instead of only checking for EXIT and ERR traps, do not avoid
creating a virtual subshell if there are any traps (except DEBUG,
SIGKILL, SIGSTOP); for this, use the sh.st.trapdontexec flag
introduced in 40245e08.
Reproducer (on macOS/*BSD where SIGUSR1 has signal number 30):
$ ksh -c '(sh -c '\''kill -s USR1 $$'\''); echo $?'
ksh: 54220: User signal 1
30
Expected output for $?: 286, not 30. The signal is not reflected in
the 9th bit of the exit status.
This bug was introduced for virtual subshells in b3050769 but
exists in every ksh93 version for real (forked) subshells:
$ ksh -c '(ulimit -t unlimited; trap : EXIT; \
sh -c '\''kill -s USR1 $$'\''); echo $?'
ksh: 54267: User signal 1
30
(As of d6c9821c, a dummy trap is needed to trigger the bug, or it
will be masked by the exec optimization for the sh invocation.)
This is caused by the exit status being masked to 8 bits when a
subshell terminates. For a real subshell, this is inevitable as the
kernel does this. As of b3050769, virtual subshells behave in a
manner consistent with real subshells in this regard.
However, for both virtual and real subshells, if its last command
was terminated by a signal, then that should still be reflected in
the 9th bit of ksh's exit stauts.
The root of the problem is that ksh simply cannot rely internally
on the 9th bit of the exit status to determine if a command exited
due to a signal. The 9th bit may be trimmed by a subshell or may be
set by 'return' without a signal being involved. This commit fixes
it by introducing a separate flag which will be a reliable
indicator of this.
src/cmd/ksh93/include/shell.h:
- Add sh.chldexitsig flag (set if the last command was a child
process that exited due to a signal).
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/jobs.c: job_wait():
- When the last child process exited due to a signal, not only set
the 9th (SH_EXITSIG) bit of sh.exitval but also sh.chldexitsig.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/subshell.c: sh_subshell():
- Fix the virtual subshell reproducer above. After trimming the
exit status to 8 bit, set the 9th bit if sh.chldexitsig is set.
This needs to be done in two places: one that runs in the parent
process after sh_subfork() and one for the regular virtual
subshell exit.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/fault.c:
- sh_trap(): Save and restore sh.chldexitsig so that this fix does
not get deactivated if a trap is set.
- sh_done():
- Fix the real subshell reproducer above. When the last command
of a real subshell is a child process that exited due to a
signal (i.e., if (sh.chldexitsig && sh.realsubshell)), then
activate the code to pass down the signal to the parent
process. Since there is no way to pass a 9-bit exit status to a
parent process, this is the only way to ensure a correct exit
status in the parent shell environment.
- When exiting the main shell, use sh.chldexitsig and not the
unreliable SH_EXITSIG bit to determine if the 8th bit needs to
be set for a portable exit status indicating its last command
exited due to a signal.
The fault.c and edit.c changes in this commit were inspired by
changes in the 93v- beta but take a slightly different approach:
mainly, the code to update $COLUMNS and $LINES is put in its own
function instead of duplicated in sh_chktrap() and ed_setup().
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/fault.c:
- Move code to update $COLUMNS and $LINES to a new
sh_update_columns_lines() function so it can be reused.
- Fix compile error on systems without SIGWINCH.
src/cmd/ksh93/edit/edit.c:
- ed_setup(): Call sh_update_columns_lines() instead of issuing
SIGWINCH to self.
- Change two sh_fault(SIGINT) calls to issuing the signal to the
current process using kill(2). sh_fault() is now never called
directly (as in the 93v- beta).
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/main.c: sh_main():
- On non-interactive, call sh_update_columns_lines() and set the
signal handler for SIGWINCH to sh_fault(), causing $COLUMNS and
$LINES to be kept up to date when the terminal window is resized
(this is handled elsewhere for interactive shells). This change
makes ksh act like mksh, bash and zsh. (Previously, ksh required
setting a dummy SIGWINCH trap to get auto-updated $COLUMNS and
$LINES in scripts, as this set the SIGWINCH signal handler to
sh_fault(). This persisted even after unsetting the trap again,
so that was inconsistent behaviour.)
src/cmd/ksh93/include/shell.h:
- Don't define sh.winch on systems without SIGWINCH.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh.1:
- Update and tweak the COLUMNS and LINES variable documentation.
- Move them up to the section of variables that are set by the
shell (which AT&T should have done before).
@stephane-chazelas reports:
> A very weird issue:
>
> To reproduce on GNU/Linux (here as superuser)
>
> # truncate -s10M file
> # export DEV="$(losetup -f --show file)"
> # ksh -c 'exec 3<> "$DEV" 3>#((0))' # fine
> # ksh -c 'exec 1<> file 1>#((0))' # fine
> # ksh -c 'exec 1<> "$DEV" 1>#((0))'
> ksh: 0: invalid seek offset
>
> Any seek offset is considered "invalid" as long as the file is a
> block device and the fd is 0, 1 or 2. It's fine for fds above 2
> and it's fine with any fd for regular files.
Apparently, block devices are not seekable with sfio. In io.c there
is specific code to avoid using sfio's sfseek(3) if there is no
sfio stream in sh.sftable[] for the file descriptor in question:
1398: Sfio_t *sp = sh.sftable[fn];
[...]
1420: if(sp)
1421: {
1422: off=sfseek(sp, off, SEEK_SET);
1423: sfsync(sp);
1424: }
1425: else
1426: off=lseek(fn, off, SEEK_SET);
For file descriptors 0, 1 or 2 (stdin/stdout/stderr), there is a
sh.sftable[] stream by default, and it is marked as not seekable.
This makes it return -1 in these lines in sfseek.c, even if the
system call called via SFSK() succeeds:
89: if(f->extent < 0)
90: { /* let system call set errno */
91: (void)SFSK(f,(Sfoff_t)0,SEEK_CUR,f->disc);
92: return (Sfoff_t)(-1);
93: }
...which explains the strange behaviour.
src/lib/libast/sfio/sfseek.c: sfseek():
- Allow for the possibility that the fallback system call might
succeed: let it handle both errno and the return value.
Resolves: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/318
Lexical levels are stored in a dynamically grown array of int values
grown by the stack_grow function. The pointer lex_match and the
maximum index lex_max are part of the lexer state struct that is now
saved and restored in various places -- see e.g. 37044047, a2bc49be.
If the stack needs to be grown, it is reallocated in stack_grow()
using sh_realloc(). If that happens between saving and restoring the
lexer state, then an outdated pointer is restored, and crash.
src/cmd/ksh93/include/shlex.h,
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/lex.c:
- Take lex_match and lex_max out of the lexer state struct and make
them separate static variables.
src/cmd/ksh93/edit/edit.c:
- While we're at it, save and restore the lexer state in a way that
is saner than the 93v- beta approach (re: 37044047) as well as
more readable. Instead of permanently allocating memory, use a
local variable to save the struct. Save/restore directly around
the sh_trap() call that actually needs this done.
Resolves: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/482
Reproducers:
$ ksh -c 'typeset -a arr=( ( (a $(($(echo 1) + 1)) c)1))'
ksh: echo: arr[0]._AST_FEATURES=CONFORMANCE - ast UNIVERSE - ucb: cannot be an array
ksh: [1]=1: invalid variable name
$ ksh -c 'typeset -a arr=( (a $(($(echo 1) + 1)) c)1)'
ksh: echo: arr._AST_FEATURES=CONFORMANCE - ast UNIVERSE - ucb: is not an identifier
ksh: [1]=1: invalid variable name
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/name.c: sh_setenviron():
- Save and clear the current compound assignment prefix (sh.prefix)
while assigning to the _AST_FEATURES variable.
Reproducer:
trap : USR1
while :; do kill -s USR1 $$ || exit; done &
while :; do : >/dev/null; done
It can take between a fraction of a second and a few minutes, but
eventually it will fail like this:
$ ksh foo
foo[3]: /dev/null: cannot create
kill: 77946: no such process
It fails similarly with "cannot open" if </dev/null is used instead
of >/dev/null.
This is the same problem as in the referenced commit, except when
handling traps -- so the same fix is required in sh_fault().
This commit supersedes @lijog's Solaris patch 280-23332860 (see
17ebfbf6) as this is a more general fix that makes the patch
redundant. Of course its associated regression tests stay.
Reproducer script:
trap 'echo SIGUSR1 received' USR1
sh -c 'kill -s USR1 $PPID'
Run as a normal script.
Expected behaviour: prints "SIGUSR1 received"
Actual behaviour: the shell invoking the script terminates. Oops.
As of 6701bb30, ksh again allows an exec-without-fork optimisation
for the last command in a script. So the 'sh' command gets the same
PID as the script, therefore its parent PID ($PPID) is the invoking
script and not the script itself, which has been overwritten in
working memory. This shows that, if there are traps set, the exec
optimisation is incorrect as the expected process is not signalled.
While 6701bb30 reintroduced this problem for scripts, this has
always been an issue for certain other situations: forked command
substitutions, background subshells, and -c option argument
scripts. This commit fixes it in all those cases.
In sh_exec(), case TFORK, the optimisation (flagged in no_fork) was
only blocked for SIGINT and for the EXIT and ERR pseudosignals.
That is wrong. It should be blocked for all signal and pseudosignal
traps, except DEBUG (which is run before the command) and SIGKILL
and SIGSTOP (which cannot be trapped).
(I've also tested the behaviour of other shells. One shell, mksh,
never does an exec optimisation, even if no traps are set. I don't
know if that is intentional or not. I suppose it is possible that a
script might expect to receive a signal without trapping it first,
and they could conceivably be affected the same way by this exec
optimisation. But the ash variants (e.g. Busybox ash, dash, FreeBSD
sh), as well as bash, yash and zsh, all do act like this, so the
behaviour is very widespread. This commit makes ksh act like them.)
Multiple files:
- Remove the sh.errtrap, sh.exittrap and sh.end_fn flags and their
associated code from the superseded Solaris patch.
src/cmd/ksh93/include/shell.h:
- Add a scoped sh.st.trapdontexec flag for sh_exec() to disable
exec-without-fork optimisations. It should be in the sh.st scope
struct because it needs to be reset in subshell scopes.
src/cmd/ksh93/bltins/trap.c: b_trap():
- Set sh.st.trapdontexec if any trap is set and non-empty (an empty
trap means ignore the signal, which is inherited by an exec'd
process, so the optimisation is fine in that case).
- Only clear sh.st.trapdontexec if we're not in a ksh function
scope; unlike subshells, ksh functions fall back to parent traps
if they don't trap a signal themselves, so a ksh function's
parent traps also need to disable the exec optimisation.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/fault.c: sh_sigreset():
- Introduce a new -1 mode for sh_funscope() to use, which acts like
mode 0 except it does not clear sh.st.trapdontexec. This avoids
clearing sh.st.trapdontexec for ksh functions scopes (see above).
- Otherwise, clear sh.st.trapdontexec whenever traps are reset.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/xec.c: check_exec_optimization():
- Consolidate all the exec optimisation logic into this function,
including the logic from the no_fork flag in sh_exec()/TFORK.
- In the former no_fork flag logic, replace the three checks for
SIGINT, ERR and EXIT traps with a single check for the
sh.st.trapdontexec flag.
Reproducer script:
tempfile=/tmp/out2.$$.$RANDOM
bintrue=$(whence -p true)
for opt in monitor pipefail
do
(
set +x -o "$opt"
(
sleep .05
echo "ok $opt" >&2
) 2>$tempfile | "$bintrue"
) &
wait
cat "$tempfile"
rm -f "$tempfile"
done
Expected output:
ok monitor
ok pipefail
Actual output:
(none)
The 'monitor' and 'pipefail' options are supposed to make the shell
wait for the all commands in the pipeline to terminate and not only
the last component, regardless of whether the pipe between the
component commands is still open. In the failing reproducer, the
dummy external true command is subject to an exec optimization, so
it replaces the subshell instead of forking a new process. This is
incorrect, as the shell is no longer around to wait for the
left-hand part of the pipeline, so it continues in the background
without being waited for. Since it writes to standard error after
.05 seconds (after the pipe is closed), the 'cat' command reliably
finds the temp file empty. Without the sleep this would be a race
condition with unpredictable results.
Interestingly, this bug is only triggered for a (background
subshell)& and not for a forked (regular subshell). Which means the
exec optimization is not done for a forked regular subshell, though
there is no reason not to. That will be fixed in the next commit.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/xec.c: sh_exec():
- case TFORK: Never allow an exec optimization if we're running a
command in a multi-command pipeline (pipejob is set) and the
shell needs to wait for all pipeline commands, i.e.: either the
time keyword is in use, the SH_MONITOR state is active, or the
SH_PIPEFAIL option is on.
- case TFIL: Fix the logic for setting job.waitall for the
non-SH_PIPEFAIL case. Do not 'or' in the boolean value but assign
it, and include the SH_TIMING (time keyword in use) state too.
- case TTIME: After that fix in case TFIL, we don't need to bother
setting job.waitall explicitly here.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh.1:
- Add missing documentation for the conditions where the shell
waits for all pipeline components (time, -o monitor/pipefail).
Resolves: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/449
$ arch/*/bin/ksh -xc 'typeset -a a=(1 2 3); \
(typeset -A a; typeset -p a); typeset -p a'
typeset -A a=()
typeset -a a=(1 2 3)
The associative array in the subshell is empty, so the conversion
failed. So far, I have been unsuccessful at fixing this in the
array and/or virtual subshell code (a patch that fixes it there
would still be more than welcome).
As usual, real subshells work correctly, so this commit adds
another forking workaround. The use case is rare and specific
enough that I have no performance concerns.
src/cmd/ksh93/bltins/typeset.c: setall():
- Fork a virtual subshell if we're actually converting a variable
to an associative array, i.e.: the NV_ARRAY (-A, associative
array) attribute was passed, there are no assignments (sh.envlist
is NULL), and the variable is not unset.
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/arith.sh:
- Fix the "Array subscript quoting test" tests that should not have
been passing and that correctly failed after this fix; they used
'typeset -A' without an assignment in a subshell, assuming it was
unset in the parent shell, which it wasn't.
Resolves: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/409
Ksh handles local traps in virtual subshells the same way as local
traps in ksh-style shell functions, which can cause incorrect
operation.
Reproducer script:
trap 'echo "parent shell trap"; exit 0' USR1
(trap 'echo "subshell trap"' USR1; kill -USR1 $$)
echo wrong
Output on every ksh93 version: 'wrong'
Output on every other shell: 'parent shell trap'
The ksh93 output is wrong because $$ is the PID of the main shell,
therefore 'kill -USR1 $$' from a subshell needs to issue SIGUSR1 to
the main shell and trigger the 'echo SIGUSR1' trap.
This is an inevitable consequence of processing signals in a
virtual subshell. Signals are a process-wide property, but a
virtual subshell and the parent shell share the same process.
Therefore it is not possible to distinguish between the parent
shell and subshell trap.
This means virtual subshells are fundamentally incompatible with
receiving signals. No workaround can make this work properly.
Ksh could either assume the signal needs to be caught by the
subshell trap (wrong in this case, but right in others) or by the
parent shell trap. But it does neither and just gives up and does
nothing, which I suppose is the least bad way of doing it wrong.
As another example, consider a subshell that traps a signal, then
passes its own process ID (as of 9de65210, that's ${.sh.pid}) to
another process to say "here is where to signal me". A virtual
subshell will send it the PID that it shares with the the parent
shell. Even if a virtual subshell receives the signal correctly, it
may fork mid-execution afterwards, depending on the commands that
it runs (and this varies by implementation as we fix or work around
bugs). So its PID could be invalidated at any time.
Forking a virtual subshell at the time of trapping a signal is the
only way to ensure a persistent PID and correct operation.
src/cmd/ksh93/bltins/trap.c: b_trap():
- Fork when trapping (or ignoring) a signal in a virtual subshell.
(There's no need to fork when trapping a pseudosignal.)
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/signal.sh:
- Add tests. These are simplified versions of tests already there,
which issued 'kill' as a background job. Currently, running a
background job causes a virtual subshell to fork before forking
the 'kill' background job (or *any* background job, see e3d7bf1d)
-- an ugly partial workaround that I believe just became
redundant and which I will remove in the next commit.
The POSIX mode now disables left-hand zero-padding of seconds in
'time'/'times' output. The standard specifies the output format quite
exactly and zero-padding is not in it.
Before:
$ set -o hist
-ksh: set: hist: bad option(s)
After:
$ set --hist
-ksh: set: hist: ambiguous option
In ksh 93u+m, there are three options starting with 'hist', so the
abbreviation does not represent a single option. It is useful to
communicate this in the error message.
In addition, "bad option(s)" was changed to "unknown option", the
same message as that given by AST optget(3), for consistency.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/string.c:
- Make sh_lookopt() return -1 for an ambiguous option. This is
trivial as there is already an 'amb' variable flagging that up.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/args.c:
- Use the negative sh_lookopt() return status to decide between
"unknown option" and "ambiguous option".
src/cmd/ksh93/data/builtins.c: sh_set[]:
- Explain the --option and --nooption forms in addition to the -o
option and +o option forms.
- Document the long options without their 'no' prefixes (e.g. glob
instead of noglob) as this simplifies documentation and the
relation with the short options makes more sense. Those names are
also how they show up in 'set -o' output and it is better for
those to match.
- Tweaks.
The POSIX standard in fact contains a sentence that specifically
allows preset aliases: "Implementations also may provide predefined
valid aliases that are in effect when the shell is invoked."
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_03_01
I had missed that back then. It's still a terrible idea for scripts
(particularly the way 93u+ implemented them), but for interactive
POSIX shells it makes a lot more sense and does not violate POSIX.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/main.c: sh_main():
- Preset aliases for interactive shell regardless of SH_POSIX.
The POSIX standard requires real UNIX pipes as in pipe(2). But on
systems supporting it (all modern ones), ksh uses socketpair(2)
instead to make it possible for certain commands to peek ahead
without consuming input from the pipe, which is not possible with
real pipes. See features/poll and sh/io.c.
But this can create undesired side effects: applications connected
to a pipe may test if they are connected to a pipe, which will fail
if they are connected to a socket. Also, on Linux:
$ cat /etc/passwd | head -1 /dev/stdin
head: cannot open '/dev/stdin' for reading: No such device or address
...which happens because, unlike most systems, Linux cannot open(2)
or openat(2) a socket (a limitation that is allowed by POSIX).
Unfortunately at least two things depend on the peekahead
capability of the _pipe_socketpair feature. One is the non-blocking
behaviour of the -n option of the 'read' built-in:
-n Causes at most n bytes to be read instead of a full
line, but will return when reading from a slow device as
soon as any characters have been read.
The other thing that breaks is the <#pattern and <##pattern
redirection operators that basically grep standard input, which
inherently requires peekahead.
Standard UNIX pipes always block on read and it is not possible to
peek ahead, so these features inevitably break. Which means we
cannot simply use standard pipes without breaking compatibility.
But we can at least fix it in the POSIX mode so that cross-platform
scripts work more correctly.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/io.c: sh_pipe():
- If _pipe_socketpair is detected at compile time, then use a real
pipe via sh_rpipe() if the POSIX mode is active. (If
_pipe_socketpair is not detected, a real pipe is always used.)
src/cmd/ksh93/data/builtins.c:
- sh.1 documents the slow-device behaviour of -n but 'read --man'
did not. Add that, making it conditional on _pipe_socketpair.
Resolves: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/327
Historically, ksh (including ksh88 and mksh) allow brace expansion
not just on literal patterns but also on patterns resulting from
unquoted variable expansions or command substitutions:
$ a='{a,b}' ksh -c 'echo X{a,b} Y$a'
Xa Xb Ya Yb
Most people expect only the first (literal) pattern to be expanded,
as in bash and zsh:
$ a='{a,b}' bash -c 'echo X{a,b} Y$a'
Xa Xb Y{a,b}
The historic ksh behaviour is poorly documented and nearly unknown,
violates the principle of least astonishment, and makes unquoted
variable expansions even more unsafe. See discussion at:
https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1193https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/140
Unfortunately, we cannot change it in default ksh without breaking
backward compatibility. But we can at least fix it for the POSIX
mode (which disables brace expansion by default but allows turning
it back on), particularly as it looks like POSIX, if it decides to
specify brace expansion in a future version of the standard, will
disallow brace expansion on unquoted variable expansions.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/macro.c: endfield():
- When deciding whether to do brace expansion + globbing or only
globbing, also check that we do not have POSIX mode and an
unquoted variable expansion (mp->pattern==1).
Reproducer script:
typeset -Ttyp1 typ1=(
function get {
.sh.value="'Sample'";
}
)
typ1 var11
typeset -p .sh.type
typeset -p .sh.type
Buggy output:
namespace sh.type
{
typeset -r typ1='Sample'
}
namespace sh.type
{
typeset -x -r typ1='Sample'
}
An -x (export) attribute is magically pulled out of a hat.
Analysis: The walk_tree() function in nvdisc.c repurposes (!) the
NV_EXPORT attribute as an instruction to turn *off* indenting when
pretty-printing the values of compound variables. The
print_namval() function in typeset.c, implementing 'typeset -p',
turns on NV_EXPORT for compound variables to inhibit indentation.
But it then does not bother to turn it off, which causes this bug.
src/cmd/ksh93/bltins/typeset.c: print_namval():
- When printing compound variables, only turn on NV_EXPORT
temporarily.
Resolves: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/456
On an interactive shell in emacs or vi, type a command with a $'…'
quoted string that contains a backslash-escaped single quote, like:
$ true $'foo\'bar' ▁
Then begin to type the name of a file present in the current
working directory and press tab. Nothing happens as completion
fails to work.
The completion code does not recognise $'…' strings. Instead, it
parses them as '…' strings in which there are no backslash escapes,
so it considers the last ' to open a second quoted string which is
not terminated.
Plus, when replacing a $'…' string with a (backslash-escaped)
completed string, the initial '$' is not replaced:
$ $'/etc/hosts<Tab>
$ $/etc/hosts
src/cmd/ksh93/edit/completion.c:
- find_begin():
- Learn how to recognise $'…' strings. A new local dollarquote
flag variable is used to distinguish them from regular '…'
strings. The difference is that backslash escapes (and only
those) should be recognised as in "…".
- Set a special type -1 for $'…' as the caller will need a way
to distinguish those from '…'.
- ed_expand(): When replacing a quoted string, remove an extra
initial character (being the $ in $') if the type set by
find_begin() is -1.
Resolves: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/462
Comsubs were either executed or caused a syntax error when attempting
to complete them within single quotes. Since single quotes do not
expand anything, no such completion should take place.
$ '`/de<TAB>-ksh: /dev/: cannot execute [Is a directory]
$ '$(/de<TAB>-ksh: syntax error: `end of file' unexpected
src/cmd/ksh93/edit/completion.c:
- find_begin():
- Remove recursive handling for '`' comsubs from 7a2d3564; it is
sufficient to set the return pointer to the current location cp
(the character following '`') if we're not in single quotes.
- For '$' and '`', if we are within single quotes, set type '\''
and set the return pointer bp to the location of the '$' or
'`'.
- ed_expand(): If find_begin() sets type '\'' and the current begin
character is $ or `, refuse to attempt completion; return -1 to
cause a terminal beep.
Related:
https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/268https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/462#issuecomment-1038482307
A side effect of the bug fixed in 2a835a2d caused the DEBUG trap
action to appear to be inherited by subshells, but in a buggy way
that could crash the shell. After the fix, the trap is reset in
subshells along with all the others, as it should be. Nonetheless,
as that bug was present for years, some have come to rely on it.
This commit implements that functionality properly. When the new
--functrace option is turned on, DEBUG trap actions are now
inherited by subshells as well as ksh function scopes. In addition,
since it makes logical sense, the new option also causes the
-x/--xtrace option's state to be inherited by ksh function scopes.
Note that changes made within the scope do not propagate upwards;
this is different from bash.
(I've opted against adding a -T short-form equivalent as on bash,
because -T was formerly a different option on 93u+ (see 63c55ad7)
and on mksh it has yet anohter a different meaning. To minimise
confusion, I think it's best to have the long-form name only.)
src/cmd/ksh93/include/shell.h,
src/cmd/ksh93/data/options.c:
- Add new "functrace" (SH_FUNCTRACE) long-form shell option.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/subshell.c: sh_subshell():
- When functrace is on, copy the parent's DEBUG trap action into
the virtual subshell scope after resetting the trap actions.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/xec.c: sh_funscope():
- When functrace is on and xtrace is on in the parent scope, turn
it on in the child scope.
- Same DEBUG trap action handling as in sh_subshell().
Resolves: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/162
After the previous commit, one inconsistency was left. Assignments
preceding special built-ins and POSIX functions (which persist past
the command :-/) caused pre-existing attributes of the respective
variables to be cleared.
$ (f() { typeset -p n; }; typeset -i n; n=3+4 f)
n=3+4
(expected output: 'typeset -i n=7')
This problem was introduced shortly before the release of ksh 93u+,
in version 2012-05-04, by adding these lines of code to the code
for processing preceding assignments in sh_exec():
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/xec.c:
1055: if(np)
1056: flgs |= NV_UNJUST;
So, for special and declaration commands and POSIX functions, the
NV_UNJUST flag is passed to nv_open(). In older ksh versions, this
flag cleared justify attributes only, but in early 2012 it was
repurposed to clear *all* attributes -- without changing the name
or the relevant comment in name.h, which are now both misleading.
The reason for setting this flag in xec.c was to deal with some
bugs in 'typeset'. Removing those two lines causes regressions:
attributes.sh[316]: FAIL: typeset -L should not preserve old attributes
attributes.sh[322]: FAIL: typeset -R should not preserve old attributes
attributes.sh[483]: FAIL: typeset -F after typeset -L fails
attributes.sh[488]: FAIL: integer attribute not cleared for subsequent typeset
Those are all typeset regressions, which suggests this fix was
relevant to typeset only. This is corroborated by the relevant
AT&T ksh93/RELEASE entry:
12-04-27 A bug in which old attributes were not cleared when
assigning a value using typeset has been fixed.
So, to fix this 2012 regression without reintroducing the typeset
regressions, we need to set the NV_UNJUST flag for invocations of
the typeset family of commands only. This is changed in xec.c.
While we're at it, we might as well rename that little-used flag to
something that reflects its current purpose: NV_UNATTR.
Reproducer:
$ typeset -i NUM=123
$ (NUM=3+4 env; :)|grep ^NUM=
NUM=3+4
$ (NUM=3+4 env)|grep ^NUM=
NUM=7
The correct output is NUM=7. This is also the output if ksh is
compiled with SHOPT_SPAWN disabled, suggesting that the problem is
here in sh_ntfork(), where the invocation-local environment list is
set using a sh_scope() call:
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/xec.c:
3496: if(t->com.comset)
3497: {
3498: scope++;
3499: sh_scope(t->com.comset,0);
3500: }
Analysis:
When ksh is compiled with SHOPT_SPAWN disabled, external commands
are always run using the regular forking mechanism. First the shell
forks, then in the fork, the preceding assignments list (if any)
are executed and exported in the main scope. Replacing global
variables is not a problem as the variables are exported and the
forked shell is then replaced by the external command using
execve(2).
But when using SHOPT_SPAWN/sh_ntfork(), this cannot be done as the
fork(2) use is replaced by posix_spawn(2) which does not copy the
parent process into the child, therefore it's not possible to
execute anything in the child before calling execve(2). Which means
the preceding assignments list must be processed in the parent, not
the child. Which makes overwriting global variables a no-no.
To avoid overwriting global variables, sh_ntfork() treats preceding
assignments like local variables in functions, which means they do
not inherit any attributes from the parent scope. That is why the
integer attribute is not honoured in the buggy reproducers.
And this is not just an issue for external commands. sh_scope() is
also used for assignments preceding a built-in command. Which is
logical, as those don't create a process at all.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/xec.c:
1325: if(argp)
1326: {
1327: scope++;
1328: sh_scope(argp,0);
1329: }
Which means this bug exists for them as well, regardless of whether
SHOPT_SPAWN is compiled in.
$ /bin/ksh -c 'typeset -i NUM; NUM=3+4 command eval '\''echo $NUM'\'
3+4
(expected: 7, as on mksh and zsh)
So, the attributes from the parent scope will need to be copied
into the child scope. This should be done in nv_setlist() which is
called from sh_scope() with both the NV_EXPORT and NV_NOSCOPE flags
passed. Those flag bits are how we can recognise the need to copy
attributes.
Commit f6bc5c0 fixed a similar inconsistency with the check for the
read-only attribute. In fact, the bug fixed there was simply a
specific instance of this bug. The extra check for readonly was
because the readonly attribute was not copied to the temporary
local scope. So that fix is now replaced by the more general fix
for this bug.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/name.c: nv_setlist():
- Introduce a 'vartree' local variable to avoid repetitive
'sh.prefix_root ? sh.prefix_root : sh.var_tree' expressions.
- Use the NV_EXPORT|NV_NOSCOPE flag combination to check if parent
scope attributes need to be copied to the temporary local scope
of an assignment preceding a command.
- If so, copy everything but the value itself: attributes (nvflag),
size parameter (nvsize), discipline function pointer (nvfun) and
the name pointer (nvname). The latter is needed because some
code, at least put_lang() in init.c, compares names by comparing
the pointers instead of the strings; copying the nvname pointer
avoids a regression in tests/locale.sh.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/xec.c: local_exports():
- Fix a separate bug exporting attributes to a new ksh function
scope, which was previously masked by the other bug. The
attributes (nvflag) were copied *after* nv_putval()ing the value,
which is incorrect as the behaviour of nv_putval() is influenced
by the attributes. But here, we're copying the value too, so we
can simplify the whole function by using nv_clone() instead. This
may also fix other corner cases. (re: c1994b87)
Resolves: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/465
Bug 1: as of 960a1a99, floating point literals were no longer
recognised when importing variables from the environment. The
attribute was still imported but the value reverted to zero:
$ (export LC_NUMERIC=C; typeset -xF5 num=7.75; \
ksh -c 'typeset -p num')
typeset -x -F 5 num=0.00000
Bug 2 (inherited from 93u+): The code that imported variable
attributes from the environment only checked '.' to determine
whether the float attribute should be set. It should check the
current radix point instead.
$ (export LC_NUMERIC=debug; typeset -xF5 num=7,75; \
ksh -c 'typeset -p num')
typeset -x -i num=0
...or, after fixing bug 1 only, the output is:
typeset -x -i num=75000
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/arith.c: sh_strnum():
- When importing untrusted env vars at init time, handle not only
"base#value" literals using strtonll, but also floating point
literals using strtold. This fixes the bug without reallowing
arbitary expressions. (re: 960a1a99)
- When not initialising, use sh.radixpoint (see f0386a87) instead
of '.' to help decide whether to evaluate an arith expression.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/init.c: env_import_attributes():
- Use sh.radixpoint instead of '.' to check for a decimal fraction.
(This code is needed because doubles are exported as integers for
ksh88 compatibility; see attstore() in name.c.)
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
Reproducer:
$ namespace test { x=123; typeset -g x=456; }
$ echo $x ${.test.x}
456 123
$ namespace test { typeset -Q; }
arch/darwin.i386-64/bin/ksh: typeset: -Q: unknown option
[usage message snipped for brevity]
$ echo $x ${.test.x}
123 123 <== expected: 123 456
$ x=789
$ echo $x ${.test.x}
789 789 <== expected: 789 456
$ # look at that, we never left the namespace...
When prefixing the erroneous 'typeset' with 'command', the problem
does not occur. 'command' disables the properties of special
built-ins such as exit on error. So, when a special built-in exits
on error, the parent scope is not properly resotred.
This bug exists in every ksh93 version with SHOPT_NAMESPACE so far.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/xec.c: sh_exec():
- Before entering a namespace, use sh_pushcontext and sigsetjmp to
make sure we return here if sh_exit() is called, e.g. when a
special builtin throws an error, to ensure the parent scope
(oldnspace) is restored.
Thanks to @hyenias for making me aware of this bug.
Discussion: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/479#issuecomment-1140468965
Reproducer:
$ (IFS=$'\t\t'; val=$'\tone\t\ttwo\t'; set --posix; \
set -- $val; echo $#; set --noposix; set -- $val; echo $#)
2
4 <== OK
$ (IFS=$'\t\t'; val=$'\tone\t\ttwo\t'; set --posix; \
set -- $val; echo $#; set --default; set -- $val; echo $#)
2
2 <== bug
The output of the seconnd command line should be like the first.
When POSIX mode is turned off using 'set --noposix' (or 'set +o
posix'), sh.ifstable is invalidated as it needs to be repopulated
on the next field split to restore ksh-specific special handling of
a repeated $IFS whitespace character as non-whitespace. However,
when 'set --default' is used, this does not happen, which is a bug.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/args.c: sh_argopts():
- While processing --default, when turning off SH_POSIX, call
sh_invalidate_ifs() to invalidate sh.ifstable.
The typeset output for -L/-R/-Z seems to be wrong when the input
has leading/trailing spaces. This started occurring after the
dynamic buffer size changes introduced in name.c as part of the
fix for <https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/142>.
Test script:
typeset -L8 s_date1=" 22/02/09 08:25:01"; echo "$s_date1"
typeset -R10 s_date1="22/02/09 08:25:01 "; echo "$s_date1"
typeset -Z10 s_date1="22/02/09 08:25:01 "; echo "$s_date1"
Actual output:
22/02/0
08:25:01
0008:25:01
Expected output:
22/02/09
9 08:25:01
9 08:25:01
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/name.c: nv_newattr():
- Simplify allocation code, replacing the earlier dynamic buffer
size calculation with just the greater of the strlen and size.
Resolves: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/476
Co-authored-by: George Lijo <george.lijo@gmail.com>
In command substitutions of the $(standard) and ${ shared state; }
form, backslash line continuation is broken.
Reproducer:
echo $(
echo one two\
three
)
Actual output (ksh93, all versions):
one two\ three
Expected output (every other shell, POSIX spec):
one twothree
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/lex.c: sh_lex(): case S_REG:
- Do not skip new-line joining if we're currently processing a
command substitution of one of these forms (i.e., if the
lp->lexd.dolparen level is > 0).
Background info/analysis:
comsub() is called from sh_lex() when S_PAR is the current state.
In src/cmd/ksh93/data/lexstates.c, we see that S_PAR is reached in
the ST_DOL state table at index 40. Decimal 40 is ( in ASCII. So,
the previous skipping of characters was done according to the
ST_DOL state table, and the character that stopped it was (. This
means we have $(.
Alternatively, comsub() may be called from sh_lex() by jumping to
the do_comsub label. In brief, that is the case when we have ${.
Regardless of which it is from the two, comsub() is now called from
sh_lex(). In comsub(), lp->lexd.dolparen is incremented at the
beginning and decremented at the end. Between them, we see that
sh_lex() is called. So, lp->lexd.dolparen in sh_lex() indicates the
depth of nesting $( or ${ statements we're in. Thus, it is also the
number of comsub() invocations seen in a backtrace taken in
sh_lex().
The codepath for `...` is different (and never had this bug).
Co-authored by: Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.org>
Resolves: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/367
The following reproducer causes a spurious syntax error:
foo="`: "("`"
The nested double quotes are not recognised correctly, causing a
syntax error at the '('. Removing the outer double quotes (which
are unnecessary) is a workaround, but it's still a bug as every
other shell accepts this. This bug has been present since the
original Bourne shell.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/lex.c: sh_lex(): case S_QUOTE:
- If the current character is '"' and we're in a `...` command
substitution (ingrave is true), then do not switch to the old
mode but keep using the ST_QUOTE state table.
Thanks to @JohnoKing for the report and to @atheik for the fix.
Co-authored by: Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.org>
Resolves: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/352
src/lib/libast/misc/optget.c: textout(): case ']':
- Before returning, call pop() to free any \f...\f info items that
are left. Note that this is a safe no-op if the pointer is null.
Resolves: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/407
Co-authored-by: Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.org>
This fixes another corner case bug in the horror show that is the
test/[ comand.
Reproducer:
$ ksh --posix -c 'test X -a -n'
ksh: test: argument expected
Every other shell returns 0 (success) as, POSIXly, this is a test
for the strings 'X' and '-n' both being non-empty, combined with
the binary -a (logical and) operator. Instead, '-n' was taken as a
unary primary operator with a missing argument, which is incorrect.
POSIX reference:
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/test.html
> 3 arguments:
> * If $2 is a binary primary, perform the binary test of $1 and $3.
src/cmd/ksh93/bltins/test.c:
- e3(): If the final argument begins with a dash, always treat it
as a test for a non-empty string, therefore return true. Do not
limit this to "new flags" only.
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/posix.sh:
- Added. These are tests for every aspect of the POSIX mode.
