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Martijn Dekker 092b90da81 Fix BUG_LOOPRET2 and related return/exit misbehaviour
The 'exit' and 'return' commands without an argument failed to pass
down the exit status of the last-run command when incorporated in a
block with redirection, &&/|| list, 'case' statement, or 'while',
'until' or 'for' loop.

src/cmd/ksh93/bltins/cflow.c:
- Use $?, which is sh.savexit a.k.a. shp->savexit, as the default
  exit status value if there is no argument, instead of
  shp->oldexit. This fixes the default exit status behaviour to
  match POSIX and other shells.

src/cmd/ksh93/include/defs.h,
src/cmd/ksh93/include/shell.h:
- Remove now-unused sh.oldexit (a.k.a. shp->oldexit) private struct
  member. It appeared to fulfill the same function as sh.savexit,
  but in a slightly broken way.
- Move the savexit/$? declaration from the _SH_PRIVATE part of the
  struct definition to the public API part. Since $? uses this,
  it's clearly a publicly exposed value already, and this is
  generally the one to use. (If anything, it's exitval that should
  have been private.) This declares savexit right next to exitval,
  rewriting the comments to clarify the difference between them.

src/cmd/ksh93/sh/fault.c,
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/subshell.c,
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/xec.c:
- Remove assignments to shp->oldexit.

src/cmd/ksh93/tests/basic.sh:
- Add thorough regression tests for the default exit status
  behaviour of 'return' and 'exit' in various lexical contexts.
- Verify that 'for' and 'case' without any command, as well as a
  lone redirection, still correctly reset the exit status to 0.

Fixes: #117
2020-09-09 20:02:20 +02:00

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TODO for AT&T ksh93, 93u+m bugfix branch
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Fix regression test failures:
- On OpenBSD, there are 15 locale-related test failures in variables.sh.
- There are many regression test failures on NetBSD.
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Fix build system:
- ksh does not currently build on AIX or QNX.
- Reimport the removed nmake. It is necessary for changes in Makefiles
to take effect. The machine-generated Mamfiles are now used as a fallback,
but they are not meant to be edited by hand.
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Fix currently known bugs affecting shell scripting. These are identified by
their modernish IDs. For exact details, see code/comments in:
https://github.com/modernish/modernish/tree/0.16/lib/modernish/cap/
- BUG_BRACQUOT: shell quoting within bracket patterns has no effect. This
bug means the '-' retains it special meaning of 'character range', and an
initial ! (and, on some shells, ^) retains the meaning of negation, even
in quoted strings within bracket patterns, including quoted variables.
- BUG_CMDEXPAN: if the 'command' command results from an expansion, it acts
like 'command -v', showing the path of the command instead of executing it.
For example:
v=command; "$v" ls
or
set -- command ls; "$@"
don't work.
See also: https://github.com/att/ast/issues/963
- BUG_CMDSPEXIT: preceding a "special builtin"[*] (other than 'eval', 'exec',
'return' or 'exit') with 'command' does not always stop it from exiting
the shell if the builtin encounters error.
[*] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_14
- BUG_CSUBSTDO: If standard output (file descriptor 1) is closed before
entering a $(command substitution), and any other file descriptors are
redirected within the command substitution, commands such as 'echo' will
not work within the command substitution, acting as if standard output is
still closed.
- BUG_IFSGLOBS: In glob pattern matching (as in case or parameter
substitution with # and %), if IFS starts with ? or * and the "$*"
parameter expansion inserts any IFS separator characters, those characters
are erroneously interpreted as wildcards when quoted "$*" is used as the
glob pattern.