When using typeset -l or -u on a variable that cannot be changed
when the shell is in restricted mode, ksh crashed.
This fixed is inspired by this Red Hat fix, which is incomplete:
642af4d6/f/ksh-20120801-tpstl.patch
The crash was caused by the nv_shell() function. It walks though a
discipline function tree to get the pointer to the interpreter
associated with it. Evidently, the problem is that some pointer in
that walk is not set correctly for all special variables.
Thing is, ksh only has one shell language interpreter, and only one
global data structure (called 'sh') to keep its main state[*]. Yet,
the code is full of 'shp' pointers to that structure. Most (not
all) functions pass that pointer around to each other, accessing
that struct indirectly, ostensibly to account for the non-existent
possibility that there might be more than one interpreter state.
The "why" of that is an interesting cause for speculation that I
may get to sometime. For now, it is enough to know that, in the
code as it is, it matters not one iota what pointer to the shell
interpreter state is used; they all point to the same thing (unless
it's broken, as in this bug).
So, rather than fixing nv_shell() and/or associated pointer
assignments, this commit simply removes it, and replaces it with
calls to sh_getinterp(), which always returns a pointer to sh (see
init.c, where that function is defined as literally 'return &sh').
[*] Defined in shell.h, with the _SH_PRIVATE part in defs.h
src/cmd/ksh93/include/defs.h,
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/name.c:
- Remove nv_shell().
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/init.c:
- In all the discipline functions for special variables, initialise
shp using sh_getinterp() instead of nv_shell().
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/variables.sh:
- Add regression test for typeset -l/-u on all special variables.
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