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This documents significant changes in the 1.0 branch of ksh 93u+m.
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For full details, see the git log at: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/tree/1.0
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Any uppercase BUG_* names are modernish shell bug IDs.
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2022-07-24:
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- Add new 'man' function in src/cmd/ksh93/fun/man. This integrates the --man
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self-documentation of ksh built-in and external AST commands with your
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system's 'man' command so you can conveniently use 'man' for all commands,
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whether built-in or external. To use this, put the file in a directory in
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your $FPATH and then issue 'autoload man' in your .kshrc to override the
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system's man(1) command. See the file for details.
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- Add new 'autocd' function in src/cmd/ksh93/fun/autocd. This activates a
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feature like 'shopt -s autocd' in bash: type only a directory name to change.
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See the file for details. Add this file to a directory in your $FPATH to use.
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- New feature to make 'set -b'/'set -o notify' more usable. When that option
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is on (and either the vi or emacs/gmacs line editor is in use), 'Done' and
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similar notifications from completed background jobs no longer mess up the
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command line you're typing. Instead, the notification is inserted directly
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above the line you're typing, without affecting your command line display.
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- Fixed a bug that caused the -b/--notify option to only notify on one job if
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more than one background job completed at the same time.
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- Fixed a bug in the 'command -x' feature introduced on 2021-01-30; it is meant
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to always run an external command, but failed to bypass path-bound builtins.
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2022-07-21:
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- Fixed a bug where a reproducible $RANDOM sequence (after assigning a
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specific value to $RANDOM) was influenced by running any external command.
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- When an error occurs in a POSIX name() function or a dot script, the
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function or script name is now reported in the error message.
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2022-07-14:
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- Fixed a bug that caused a spurious "Done" message on the interactive shell
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when an external command was run as a foreground job from a SIGINT trap.
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2022-07-12:
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- The .sh.level variable can now only be changed within a DEBUG trap. When
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trap execution ends, the variable and the scope are now restored. These
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changes disallow an inconsistent shell scoping state causing instability.
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2022-07-10:
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- Fixed a potential crash on retrieving an empty line from the command history.
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- Fixed a potential crash in the lexical analyser on processing single-byte
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characters with the highest bit set.
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2022-07-09:
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- Fixed a bug that broke '[[ ... ]]' test expressions for the command
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following a syntax error in an associative array assignment.
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2022-07-05:
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- Fixed a spurious syntax error on encountering a process substitution
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following a redirection without being an argument to a redirection.
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For example, this now writes 'OK' to standard error: cat >&2 <(echo OK)
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- Fixed the detection of a syntax error in compound assignments to
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associative arays.
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2022-07-02:
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- Fixed a bug where, if the last command in a subshell was an external
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command that was terminated by a signal, the exit status ($?) of the
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subshell did not reflect this by adding 256 to the signal number.
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- Fixed a bug that caused signal traps to be ignored if the shell was
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signalled from a subshell that is the last command in the script.
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2022-07-01:
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- In scripts, $COLUMNS and $LINES are now kept up to date in scripts at
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initialization and when the window size changes (previously, this
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required setting a dummy trap for the SIGWINCH signal in the script).
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2022-06-28:
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- Fixed a bug that caused the <#((num)) or >#((num)) arithmetic seek
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redirection operator to fail if used with file descriptor 0, 1 or 2
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connected to a block device.
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2022-06-22:
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- Fixed: 'echo' failed when used inside a command substitution that
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is inside a nested compound assignment.
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- Fixed a crash in KEYBD trap handling introduced on 2021-11-29.
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2022-06-20:
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- Fixed a race condition that could cause redirections to fail with a
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"cannot create" or "cannot open" error while processing a signal trap.
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2022-06-18:
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- Fixed a bug where, with the monitor or pipefail option on, the shell
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failed to wait for all component commands in a pipeline to terminate if
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the last component command was an external command and the pipeline was
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the last command in a background subshell.
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- When any trap except DEBUG, KILL or STOP is set to a non-empty command,
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the last command in a script or forked subshell will no longer avoid forking
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before executing; this optimization incorrectly bypassed the traps.
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2022-06-15:
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- Fixed a bug where converting an indexed array into an associative array in
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a subshell failed, resulting in an empty associative array.
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2022-06-13:
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- Trapping a signal that is not a pseudosignal will now cause a virtual
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subshell to fork into a real one. This ensures a persistent PID where
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other processes can signal the subshell (the PID of a virtual subshell may
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change as other commands cause it to fork), and fixes a bug where a signal
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could not be correctly or effectively trapped in a subshell if the same
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signal was also trapped in the main shell environment.
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2022-06-12:
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- The POSIX mode now disables zero-padding of seconds in 'time'/'times' output.
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2022-06-09:
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- The POSIX mode has been amended to use a UNIX pipe(2) instead of a
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socketpair(2) to connect commands in a pipeline, as the standard requires.
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(When reading directly from a pipeline in posix mode, the <#pattern and
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<##pattern redirection operators will not work and the -n option to the
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read built-in will not return early when reading from a slow device.)
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- An interactive shell initialized in POSIX mode now once again has the
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preset aliases defined. This amends a change made on 2020-09-11.
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- If a long-form shell option name is abbreviated so it matches multiple
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options, the error message from ksh or 'set' now reads "ambiguous option".
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2022-06-08:
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- If -B/--braceexpand is turned on in --posix mode, it now only allows brace
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expansion on literal strings and not on the values of unquoted expansions.
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This behaviour is like bash and zsh, as well as compliant with a future
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version of the POSIX standard that may specify brace expansion:
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https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1193
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2022-06-07:
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- Fixed a bug in 'typeset' where compound variables could acquire a spurious
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-x (export) attribute when printing their values, triggering other bugs.
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2022-06-05:
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- Fixed a bug where tab completion would spuriously execute a command
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substitution after entering: '`something<TAB> or generate a spurious
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'end of file unexpected' syntax error after entering: '$(something<TAB>.
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- Fixed bug where tab completion stopped working for arguments following a
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quoted string with an escaped backslash in the form $'foo\'bar'.
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2022-06-04:
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- Added a new --functrace long-form shell option which causes the -x/--xtrace
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option's state and the DEBUG trap action to be inherited by function scopes
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instead of being reset to default. Changes made to them within a function
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scope still do not propagate back to the parent scope. Similarly, this
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option also causes the DEBUG trap action to be inherited by subshells.
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2022-06-03:
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- Fixed a couple of bugs that caused floating point variables imported from
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a parent ksh through the environment to be corrupted.
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- Fixed a bug where invocation-local assignments preceding a built-in or
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external command or function call did not honour their pre-existing
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attributes set by typeset (such as -i or -F) in certain cases.
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2022-06-01:
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- New 'typeset' feature inspired by bash (and zsh and mksh): the -g flag
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causes the specified variable(s) to be created globally, ignoring the
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local scope of ksh functions or name spaces. For example, this allows
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creating a global array or numeric variable from a ksh function.
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Thanks to @ormaaj for the feature suggestion and to @hyenias for testing.
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2022-05-29:
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- Fixed a bug causing an inconsistent state after a special built-in command
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threw an error within a namespace.
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2022-05-27:
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- Fixed a bug introduced on 2022-03-05 where 'set --default', while turning
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off the --posix option, did not re-enable the special handling of a repeated
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$IFS whitespace character as non-whitespace.
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2022-05-25:
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- Fixed a bug introduced on 2021-02-20 that caused incorrect output for
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typeset -L/-R/-Z when the variable contained leading or trailing spaces.
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Thanks to George Lijo for the report and the fix.
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2022-05-21:
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- Fixed a bug, present since the beginning of ksh93, that broke backslash line
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continuation within $(standard) and ${ shared-state; } command substitutions.
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Thanks to atheik for the analysis and the fix. (BUG_CSUBLNCONT)
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2022-05-20:
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- Fixed an ancient bug that caused a spurious syntax error when using double
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quotes within a `backtick` command substitution within double quotes.
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Thanks to atheik for the analysis and the fix. (BUG_CSUBBTQUOT)
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2022-03-10:
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- Fixed another corner case bug in the 'test'/'[' command.
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- A memory leak was fixed in the --man self-documentation options
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of built-in commands.
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2022-03-05:
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- The 'enum' command can now create more than one type per invocation.
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- The POSIX compatibility mode has been amended to disable the special handling
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of a repeated $IFS whitespace character as non-whitespace.
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2022-02-23:
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- When reading input from the keyboard, ksh now turns off nonblocking I/O
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mode for standard input if a previously ran program left it on, so that
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interactive programs that expect it to be off work properly.
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- Fixed a regression introduced on 2022-02-02 that caused interactive shells
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to enter an infinite loop when a command failed to execute on Linux
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systems with version 2.35 of glibc.
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- Fixed a SIGTTOU lockup that could cause ksh to freeze under strace(1) after
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a command failed to execute in an interactive shell.
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2022-02-18:
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- Fixed a regression introduced on 2021-04-11 that caused the += operator in
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invocation-local assignments to crash the shell or modify variables outside
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of the invocation-local scope.
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2022-02-17:
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- Fixed a crash, introduced on 2021-01-19, that occurred when using 'cd' in
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a subshell with the PWD variable unset.
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- Fixed a crash that could occur when or after entering the suspend character
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(Ctrl+Z) while the shell was blocked trying to write to a FIFO special file.
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2022-02-16:
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- Backported minor additions to the 'read' built-in command from ksh 93v-:
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'-a' is now the same as '-A' and '-u p' is the same as '-p'. This is for
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compatibility with some 93v- or ksh2020 scripts. (Note that their change
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to the '-p' option to support both prompts and coprocess reads was not
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backported because we found it to be broken and unfixable.)
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2022-02-15:
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- A bug was fixed in fast filescan loops (like 'while <file; do ...; done',
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enabled by default by the SHOPT_FILESCAN compile-time option) in which
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"$@" incorrectly acted like "$*" within the do...done block.
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- Improved sanity check for filescan loops: they are now only recognised if
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'while' is followed by a single input redirection without any command
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name/arguments or variable assignments.
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- As SHOPT_FILESCAN has been enabled by default since ksh 93l 2001-06-01,
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the fast filescan loop is now documented in the manual page and the
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compile-time option is no longer considered experimental.
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- Filescan loops are now disabled at runtime if the --posix option is active
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as they break a portable use case: POSIXly, 'while <file; do stuff; done'
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repeatedly executes 'stuff' while 'file' can successfully be opened for
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reading, without actually reading from 'file'.
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2022-02-12:
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- In multibyte locales such as UTF-8, shell input is no longer corrupted when
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a KEYBD trap is active. However, the KEYBD trap is not yet multibyte ready
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and is now only triggered for ASCII characters (1-127) in a multibyte locale.
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2022-02-11:
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- On the interactive shell, tab/esc completion is no longer disabled as a side
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effect of turning off pathname expansion with 'set -f' or 'set -o noglob'.
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- Fixed a bug in which a >&- or <&- redirection could persist past a
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subshell in certain corner cases involving 'exec' or 'redirect'.
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2022-02-08:
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- Multiple bugs were fixed in the method that ksh uses to execute a shell
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script without a #! path. Among other things, custom types and other
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changes in built-in commands will no longer affect the invoked script.
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The state of the 'posix' option is now inherited by the script.
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- To avoid an inconsistent state, the 'enum' and 'typeset -T' commands are
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no longer allowed to replace special built-in commands. For instance,
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'enum trap=(a b c)' is now an error because 'trap' is a special built-in.
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The ability of 'typeset -T' to redefine a type is not affected.
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- A command like 'typeset -T foo_t' without any assignment no longer creates
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an incompletely defined 'foo_t' built-in command that will crash the shell
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when used. Instead, it is now silently ignored for backwards compatibility.
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- Compound arrays belonging to a type created with 'typeset -T' now have
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their -C attribute preserved in the output of 'typeset -p'.
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- A bug has been fixed in which the 'typeset -p' output of a two-dimensional
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sparse indexed array would cause the second subscript to be treated as an
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associative array when read back in by the shell. Elements that are sparse
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indexed arrays are now prefixed with "typeset -a".
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- The rewritten .sh.match code from ksh93v- has been backported to ksh93u+m,
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fixing many bugs and improving performance by a considerable amount.
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2022-02-05:
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- Fixed: for indexed arrays, given an unset array member a[i] with i > 0,
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${a[i]=value} failed to assign the value and ${v[i]?error} failed to throw
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an error.
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- Fixed: the -a/--allexport shell option incorrectly exported some variables
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with names containing a dot to the environment. Note that the '-x' typeset
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attribute may still be set for them, but this will now not have any
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effect. Variables created in namespaces declared with the 'namespace'
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keyword are only exported while their namespace is active.
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2022-02-04:
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- Fixed a bug in 'typeset -p': for an indexed array variable that is set
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but empty, it will no longer output a nonexistent '[0]=' element.
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2022-02-02:
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- Fixed the -a/allexport option to export all variables that are assigned
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values. Previously, arithmetic $((var=1)) or conditional ${var:=value}
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assignments were not exported even with allexport on.
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- Fixed a memory leak that could occur when using traps.
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- Fixed a use after free issue that could occur when modifying or setting
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a SIGCHLD trap.
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2022-02-01:
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- Upon invocation, the interactive shell no longer leaves the user without
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a line editor if the VISUAL or EDITOR variable does not indicate emacs,
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gmacs or vi; instead, it now turns on the emacs option by default.
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2022-01-31:
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- Improved keyboard support for the vi and emacs built-in line editors:
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- Added support for Home key sequences ^[[1~ and ^[[7~ as well as End key
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sequences ^[[4~ and ^[[8~.
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- Added support for arrow key sequences ^[OA, ^[OB, ^[OC and ^[OD.
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- Added support for the following keyboard shortcuts (if the platform
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supports the expected escape sequence):
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- Ctrl-Left Arrow: Go back one word
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- Alt-Left Arrow: Go back one word (Not supported on Haiku)
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- Ctrl-Right Arrow: Go forward one word
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- Alt-Right Arrow: Go forward one word (Not supported on Haiku)
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- Ctrl-G: Cancel reverse search
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- Ctrl-Delete: Delete next word (Not supported on Haiku)
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- Added a keybind for the Insert key, which differs in the emacs and vi
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editing modes:
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- In emacs mode, Insert escapes the next character.
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- In vi mode, Insert will switch the editor to insert mode (like in vim).
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- Fixed a bug in SIGINT handling: if a script ran an external command that
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interrupted itself (and only itself, not the process group) with SIGINT,
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the script that ran the command was also interrupted.
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2022-01-28:
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- Fixed longstanding job control breakage that occurred on the interactive
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shell when suspending (Ctrl+Z) an external command invoked by a dot script
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or POSIX shell function, or via 'eval'.
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- Fixed a memory leak that occurred when running a command that was found on
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the PATH.
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2022-01-26:
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- On Cygwin, ksh now executes scripts that do not have a #! path itself,
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like it does on other systems, instead of with /bin/sh.
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- Fixed a spurious syntax error which occurred when attempting to use array
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subscript expansion with unset variables (i.e., ${foo[${bar}..${baz}]}).
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2022-01-24:
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- Fixed a crashing bug in history expansion that could occur when using the "&"
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modifier to repeat a substitution while there was no previous substitution.
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- History expansion is now documented in the ksh(1) manual page.
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- In history expansion, the history comment character '#' is now enabled by
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default, as it is on bash.
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- In history expansion, the 'a' modifier is now a synonym for 'g', as on bash.
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- Fixed a bug in history expansion where the 'p' modifier had no effect if
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the 'histverify' option is on.
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2022-01-20:
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- Disallow out-of-range event numbers in history expansion (-H/-o histexpand).
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Previously these were accepted, resulting in corrupted expansions.
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- Fixed a potential crash in history expansion due to a buffer overflow.
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2022-01-12:
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- Added bash-inspired --histreedit and --histverify options that modify history
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expansion (--histexpand), allowing editing on failure or before execution.
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2022-01-04:
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- Fixed an issue in vi mode that caused tab completion to fail if the
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last character on the command line was a space.
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2021-12-29:
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- Fixed numerous build errors that prevented ksh from running on Haiku OS.
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- Added support for the SIGKILLTHR signal on operating systems that
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implement it.
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2021-12-28:
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- Fixed a bug that caused CDPATH to continue working after unsetting it.
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- Added three options to the ulimit builtin with the same names and
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functionality as in Bash:
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- 'ulimit -k' sets the maximum number of kqueues.
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- 'ulimit -P' sets the maximum number of pseudo-terminals.
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- 'ulimit -R' sets the maximum time in microseconds a real-time process
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can run before blocking.
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Note that to use these options the operating system must support the
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corresponding resource limit.
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- Ported performance optimizations from illumos to improve the performance
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of the cksum builtin. (Note that the cksum builtin is not enabled by
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default.)
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2021-12-27:
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- Two bash-like flags for 'whence' were backported from ksh 93v-:
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- 'whence -P/type -P' is an alias to the existing -p flag.
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- 'whence -t/type -t' will print only the type of a command in a simple
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format that is designed to be easy to use for scripts. Example:
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$ type -t typeset; whence -t sh
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builtin
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file
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- Fixed a crash or freeze that would occur on Linux when using Ctrl+C to
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interrupt a command substitution containing a pipe in an interactive shell.
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- Fixed a crash that could occur while processing a here-document while
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xtrace (set -x) is on and the $PS4 prompt contains parameter expansions or
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command substitutions.
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- The mkservice and eloop builtins can now be built by enabling the
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new SHOPT_MKSERVICE setting in src/cmd/ksh93/SHOPT.sh.
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2021-12-26:
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- Listing aliases or tracked aliases in a script no longer corrupts
|
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shcomp's generated bytecode.
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- Listing specific aliases with 'alias -p' and specific tracked aliases
|
|
with 'alias -pt' now works as documented. This means that the following
|
|
string of commands now works as you would expect:
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$ hash -r; unalias -a
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$ alias foo=bar; hash cat
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$ alias -p foo; alias -pt cat
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alias foo=bar
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alias -t cat
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- As a result of the above fix, listing all tracked aliases with 'alias -pt'
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now prints commands that can be reused to recreate the tracked aliases.
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- Attempting to list a non-existent alias or tracked alias with the -p option
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now causes an error and sets the exit status to the number of non-existent
|
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aliases passed.
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- Attempting to list 256 non-existent aliases now errors out with the exit
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status set to one.
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2021-12-22:
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- Process substitutions run in a profile script no longer print their
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process ID when run.
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2021-12-21:
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|
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- Fixed a bug that caused subshells (such as code blocks in parentheses) to
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|
partially behave like the interactive main shell after running anything
|
|
that invokes the parser. For example:
|
|
$ (eval :; sleep 1 & echo done)
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[1] 30909 <--- incorrect job control output from subshell
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|
done
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- Fixed: after suspending (Ctrl+Z) a subshell that is running an external
|
|
command, resuming the subshell with 'fg' failed and the job was lost.
|
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$ (vi) <--- press Ctrl+Z
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[2] + Stopped (vi)
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$ fg
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(vi) <--- vi failed to resume; immediate return to command line
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$ fg
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ksh: no such job
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2021-12-17:
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- Release 1.0.0-beta.2.
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- Ksh no longer behaves badly when parsing a type definition command
|
|
('typeset -T' or 'enum') without executing it or when executing it in
|
|
a subshell. Types can now safely be defined in subshells and defined
|
|
conditionally as in 'if condition; then enum ...; fi'.
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- Single digits can now be compared lexically in [[ ... ]] with the
|
|
< and > operators.
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2021-12-16:
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- Changed the default selection of compiled-in /opt/ast/bin built-in libcmd
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|
commands to: basename, cat, cp, cut, dirname, getconf, ln, mktemp, mv.
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|
Add /opt/ast/bin to your $PATH to use these. Type 'cp --man', etc. for info.
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- A bug introduced on 2020-09-17 was fixed that caused interactive ksh to exit
|
|
if Ctrl+C was pressed while SIGINT was being ignored (as in "trap '' INT").
|
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2021-12-13:
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- Fixed a bug introduced on 2020-08-09 that prevented '.' and '..' from
|
|
being completed when using file name tab completion.
|
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|
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- Fixed a bug on illumos that caused the chown builtin to fail with 'Invalid
|
|
argument' after failing to change the ownership of a file twice using an ID
|
|
that doesn't exist in /etc/passwd. (Note that the chown builtin is not
|
|
enabled by default.)
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2021-12-11:
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- Fixed two more crashing bugs that occurred if ksh received a signal (such
|
|
as SIGINT due to Ctrl+C) while the user is entering a multi-line command
|
|
substitution in an interactive shell.
|
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|
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- The shell linter's warning for variable expansion in ((...)) now tells the
|
|
user which variable is causing performance degradation.
|
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|
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- The shell linter now warns the user x=$((expr)) is slower than ((x=expr))
|
|
when assigning a value to a variable.
|
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2021-12-09:
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- Increased the general robustness of discipline function handling, fixing
|
|
crashing bugs with PS2.get() and .sh.tilde.get() disciplines, among others.
|
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|
- Fixed a crash that occurred on the interactive shell if the PS1 prompt
|
|
contains multiple command substitutions and the user interrupts input
|
|
while the shell is on a PS2 prompt waiting for the user to complete a
|
|
command substitution of the form $( ... ).
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2021-12-08:
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- Fixed: if a function returned with a status > 256 using the 'return' command
|
|
and the return value corresponded to a value that could have resulted from a
|
|
signal, and an EXIT trap was active, then the shell mistakenly issued that
|
|
signal to itself. Depending on the signal, this could cause the shell to
|
|
terminate ungracefully, e.g. 'return 267' caused SIGSEGV ("memory fault").
|
|
|
|
- For the 'return' built-in command, you can now freely specify any
|
|
return value that fits in a signed integer, typically a 32-bit value.
|
|
Note that $? is truncated to 8 bits when the current (sub)shell exits.
|
|
|
|
- The head and tail builtins now correctly handle files that do not have an
|
|
ending newline. (Note that the tail builtin is not compiled in by default.)
|
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2021-12-05:
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|
- Fixed an issue on illumos that caused some parameters in the getconf
|
|
builtin to fail.
|
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|
|
- The cd built-in command now supports a -e option (as specified in
|
|
https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=253). Passing -e alongside -P
|
|
is used to guarantee the cd built-in returns with exit status 1 if the
|
|
current working directory couldn't be determined after successfully changing
|
|
the directory.
|
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2021-12-01:
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- Fixed a memory fault that occurred when a discipline function exited
|
|
with an error from a special builtin or when a discipline function exited
|
|
because of a signal.
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|
|
2021-11-29:
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|
|
- Fixed a memory fault that prevented ksh from functioning on ARM-based Macs.
|
|
|
|
- A bug that caused the time keyword to override the errexit shell option has
|
|
been fixed.
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a crash that could occur when a KEYBD trap was set and a multi-line
|
|
command substitution was input in an interactive shell.
|
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|
|
- The shell linter's warnings for obsolete arithmetic operators in [[ ... ]]
|
|
and unnecessary variable expansion in ((...)) have been improved.
|
|
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|
2021-11-24:
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- The --posix mode was amended to stop the '.' command (but not 'source') from
|
|
looking up functions defined with the 'function' keyword. In the POSIX
|
|
standard and on other shells, the '.' command finds only script files.
|
|
|
|
- The rm built-in's -d/--directory option has been fixed. It now properly
|
|
removes empty directories and refuses to remove non-empty directories
|
|
(as specified in https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=802). Note
|
|
that the rm built-in command isn't compiled in by default.
|
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|
|
2021-11-23:
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|
- A bug was fixed that allowed arithmetic expressions to assign out-of-range
|
|
values to variables of an enumeration type defined with the 'enum' command,
|
|
causing undefined behavior. Within arithmetic expressions, enumeration
|
|
values translate to index numbers from 0 to the number of elements minus 1.
|
|
That range is now checked for. Decimal fractions are ignored.
|
|
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|
2021-11-21:
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|
- It is now possible to use types defined by 'enum' in contexts where the
|
|
script is entirely parsed before (or without) being executed, such as
|
|
dotted/sourced scripts and scripts compiled by shcomp.
|
|
|
|
- Added support for the size mode to the stty(1) built-in. This mode is used
|
|
to display the terminal's number of rows and columns. Note that the stty
|
|
built-in is not compiled in by default. This can be changed by adding
|
|
stty to the table of built-ins in src/cmd/ksh93/data/builtins.c.
|
|
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|
2021-11-20:
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|
- Listing types with 'typeset -T' no longer displays incomplete versions of
|
|
types created by the enum built-in.
|
|
|
|
2021-11-18:
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|
|
|
- The printf built-in command now supports a -v option as on bash and zsh.
|
|
This allows you to assign formatted output directly to a variable.
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a performance regression introduced on 2021-05-03 that caused
|
|
the shbench[*] fibonacci benchmark to run slower.
|
|
[*]: https://github.com/ksh-community/shbench
|
|
|
|
2021-11-16:
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|
|
|
- By default, arithmetic expressions in ksh no longer interpret a number
|
|
with a leading zero as octal in any context. Use 8#octalnumber instead.
|
|
Before, ksh would arbitrarily recognize the leading octal zero in some
|
|
contexts but not others, e.g., both of:
|
|
$ x=010; echo "$((x)), $(($x))"
|
|
$ set -o letoctal; x=010; let y=$x z=010; echo "$y, $z"
|
|
would output '10, 8'. These now output '10, 10' and '8, 8', respectively.
|
|
Arithmetic expressions now also behave identically within and outside
|
|
((...)) and $((...)). Setting the --posix compliance option turns on the
|
|
recognition of the leading octal zero for all arithmetic contexts.
|
|
|
|
2021-11-15:
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|
|
|
- In arithmetic evaluation, the --posix compliance option now disables the
|
|
special floating point constants Inf and NaN so that $((inf)) and $((nan))
|
|
refer to the variables by those names as the standard requires. (BUG_ARITHNAN)
|
|
|
|
- Fixed two file descriptor leaks in the hist builtin that occurred when
|
|
the -s flag ran a command or encountered an error.
|
|
|
|
2021-11-14:
|
|
|
|
- Fixed: ksh crashed after unsetting .sh.match and then matching a pattern.
|
|
|
|
- Another test/[ fix: "test \( string1 -a string2 \)" and "test \( string1 -o
|
|
string2 \)" no longer give an incorrect "argument expected" error message.
|
|
|
|
2021-11-13:
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|
|
|
- The test/[ built-in command now supports the '<' and '=~' operators from [[.
|
|
As of now, test/[ supports the same operators as [[ except for the different
|
|
and/or operators. Note: test/[ remains deprecated due to its many pitfalls.
|
|
|
|
- The test/[ built-in command is fixed so that the binary -a (and) and -o (or)
|
|
operators, as in [ "$a" -a "$b" ] or [ "$a" -o "$b" ], work even if "$a" is
|
|
'!' or '('. To avoid breaking backwards compatibility with the nonstandard
|
|
unary [ -a "$file" ] and [ -o "$option" ] operators in combination with '!'
|
|
or parentheses, this fix is only activated if the posix option is on.
|
|
|
|
2021-11-07:
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|
|
|
- Fixed a bug that could corrupt output if standard output is closed upon
|
|
initializing the shell.
|
|
|
|
- Improved BUG_PUTIOERR fix (2020-05-14) with more error checking. On
|
|
systems with the "disk full" error testing device /dev/full, an
|
|
echo/print/printf to /dev/full now always yields a non-zero exit status.
|
|
|
|
2021-09-13:
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|
|
|
- Disable the POSIX arithmetic context while running a command substitution
|
|
invoked from within an arithmetic expression. This fixes a bug that caused
|
|
integer arguments with a leading zero to be incorrectly interpreted as octal
|
|
numbers in non-POSIX arithmetic contexts within such command substitutions.
|
|
|
|
2021-09-12:
|
|
|
|
- When invoking a script without an interpreter/hashbang path on Linux and
|
|
macOS, ksh can now update 'ps' output to show longer command lines.
|
|
|
|
2021-08-13:
|
|
|
|
- An issue was fixed that could cause old-style `backtick` command
|
|
substitutions to hang in certain cases.
|
|
|
|
2021-06-03:
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a bug in the [[ compound command: the '!' logical negation operator
|
|
now correctly negates another '!', e.g., [[ ! ! 1 -eq 1 ]] now returns
|
|
0/true. Note that this has always been the case for 'test'/'['.
|
|
|
|
2021-05-18:
|
|
|
|
- Fixed SHLVL so that replacing ksh by itself (exec ksh) will not increase it.
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a regression introduced on 2020-08-05 that caused a non-interactive
|
|
shell to exit if an I/O redirection of a function call encountered an error.
|
|
|
|
2021-05-13:
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a bug with 'test -t 1' that was introduced on 2021-04-26:
|
|
v=$(test -t 1 >/dev/tty && echo ok) did not assign 'ok' to v.
|
|
|
|
2021-05-10:
|
|
|
|
- Release 1.0.0-beta.1.
|
|
|
|
2021-05-07:
|
|
|
|
- Backported three ksh 93v- math.tab changes, allowing for an exp10()
|
|
arithmetic function if one exists in the C library, a new float()
|
|
function, and lastly an updated int() function that rounds to zero
|
|
instead of being an alias to floor().
|
|
|
|
2021-05-05:
|
|
|
|
- Fixed: a preceding variable assignment like foo=bar in 'foo=bar command'
|
|
(with no command arguments after 'command') incorrectly survived the
|
|
'command' regular built-in command invocation.
|
|
|
|
- Fixed: 'command -p some_utility' intermittently failed to find the utility
|
|
under certain conditions due to a memory corruption issue.
|
|
|
|
2021-05-03:
|
|
|
|
- Subshells (even if non-forked) now keep a properly separated state of the
|
|
pseudorandom generator used for $RANDOM, so that using $RANDOM in a
|
|
non-forked subshell no longer influences a reproducible $RANDOM sequence in
|
|
the parent environment. In addition, upon invoking a subshell, $RANDOM is now
|
|
reseeded (as mksh and bash do).
|
|
|
|
- Fixed program flow corruption that occurred in scripts on executing a
|
|
background job in a nested subshell, as in ( ( simple_command & ) ).
|
|
|
|
- Completed the 2021-04-30 fix for ${var<OP>'{}'} where <OP> is '-', '+',
|
|
':-' or ':+' by fixing a bug that caused an extra '}' to be output.
|
|
|
|
- Following the resolution of Austin Group bug 1393[*] that is set to be
|
|
included in the next version of the POSIX standard, the 'command' prefix
|
|
in POSIX mode (set -o posix) no longer disables the declaration properties
|
|
of declaration built-ins. This reverts a change introduced on 2020-09-11.
|
|
[*] https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1393
|
|
|
|
- Fixed arithmetic assignment operations for multidimensional indexed arrays.
|
|
|
|
2021-04-30:
|
|
|
|
- The emacs 'ESC .' (M-.) and vi '_' commands now take shell quoting into
|
|
account when repeating a word from the previous command line. For example, if
|
|
the previous command is 'ls Stairway\ To\ Heaven.mp3', then they now insert
|
|
'Stairway\ To\ Heaven.mp3' instead of 'Heaven.mp3'. Thanks to Govind Kamat.
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a bug introduced on 2020-09-05 that caused "echo ${var:+'{}'}"
|
|
to be misparsed.
|
|
|
|
- Fixed: the effects of 'builtin', 'exec' and 'ulimit' leaked out of a parent
|
|
virtual subshell if run from a ${ shared-state; } command substitution.
|
|
|
|
2021-04-26:
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a bug introduced on 2021-02-20 in which a shared-state command
|
|
substitution stopped sharing its state with the calling shell environment
|
|
if it executed a command that locally redirected standard output.
|
|
|
|
2021-04-22:
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|
|
|
- shcomp (the shell bytecode compiler) was fixed to correctly compile process
|
|
substitutions used as the file name to a redirection, as in 'cmd < <(cmd)'.
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a bug introduced on 2020-07-13 that set LINENO to the wrong line
|
|
number after leaving a virtual subshell in which LINENO had been unset.
|
|
|
|
2021-04-21:
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a bug introduced on 2020-09-28 that caused an interactive ksh to exit
|
|
if a profile script (such as ~/.kshrc) contains a syntax error.
|
|
|
|
2021-04-20:
|
|
|
|
- Fixed three problems with the /opt/ast/bin/getconf built-in command:
|
|
1. The -l/--lowercase option did not change all variable names to lower case.
|
|
2. The -q/--quote option now quotes all string values. Previously, it only
|
|
quoted string values that had a space or other non-shellsafe character.
|
|
3. The -c/--call, -n/--name and -s/--standard options matched all variable
|
|
names provided by 'getconf -a', even if none were actual matches.
|
|
|
|
- The readonly attribute of ksh variables is no longer imported from
|
|
or exported to other ksh shell instances through the environment.
|
|
|
|
2021-04-16:
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a bug in emacs mode: after using tab completion to complete the name
|
|
of a directory, it was not possible to type numbers after the slash.
|
|
|
|
- Fixed an optimization bug that caused the <>; redirection operator to fail
|
|
when used with the last command in a -c script.
|
|
|
|
2021-04-14:
|
|
|
|
- Path-bound built-ins (such as /opt/ast/bin/cat) can now be executed by
|
|
invoking the canonical path, so the following will now work as expected:
|
|
$ /opt/ast/bin/cat --version
|
|
version cat (AT&T Research) 2012-05-31
|
|
$ (PATH=/opt/ast/bin:$PATH; "$(whence -p cat)" --version)
|
|
version cat (AT&T Research) 2012-05-31
|
|
Non-canonical paths such as /opt/ast/./bin/cat will not find the built-ins.
|
|
|
|
- Path-bound built-ins will now also be found on a PATH set locally using an
|
|
assignment preceding the command, so the following will now work as expected:
|
|
$ PATH=/opt/ast/bin cat --version
|
|
version cat (AT&T Research) 2012-05-31
|
|
|
|
2021-04-13:
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a few bugs that could cause ksh to show the wrong error message and/or
|
|
return the wrong exit status if a command couldn't be executed. In
|
|
scenarios where the command was found in the PATH but it was not executable,
|
|
ksh now returns with exit status 126. Otherwise, ksh will return with exit
|
|
status 127 (such as if the command isn't found or if the command name is
|
|
too long).
|
|
|
|
2021-04-12:
|
|
|
|
- Corrected a memory fault when an attempt was made to unset the default
|
|
nameref KSH_VERSION from the shell environment prior to any other name
|
|
reference variable creation or modification.
|
|
|
|
2021-04-11:
|
|
|
|
- Fixed two related regressions introduced on 2020-06-16:
|
|
1. The += assignment failed to append the value of variables when used
|
|
in an invocation-local scope. The following should print '5', but
|
|
the regression resulted in '3' being printed instead:
|
|
$ integer foo=2; foo+=3 command eval 'echo $foo'
|
|
3
|
|
2. Any += assignment used in an invocation-local scope could modify
|
|
readonly variables.
|
|
|
|
2021-04-10:
|
|
|
|
- Fixed: the internal count of the recursion level for arithmetic expressions
|
|
was not reset when certain errors occurred in a virtual subshell. This could
|
|
cause an erroneous "recursion to deep" error when a loop executed many
|
|
subshells containing arithmetic expressions with errors, e.g. for testing.
|
|
|
|
2021-04-09:
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a bug that caused ksh to enable -c during the shell's initialization
|
|
if the only argument passed was --posix.
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a related bug that caused 'set --posix' to leave the braceexpand and
|
|
letoctal shell options unchanged.
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a bug that caused 'set --default' to unset the restricted option
|
|
in restricted shells.
|
|
|
|
2021-04-08:
|
|
|
|
- Path-bound builtins will now be used by restricted shells if /opt/ast/bin
|
|
is in the $PATH upon invoking the shell or before setting it to restricted.
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a bug that caused "printf '%T\n' now" to ignore $LC_ALL and $LC_TIME
|
|
if the current locale was previously set, unset then set again.
|
|
|
|
2021-04-07:
|
|
|
|
- The $LC_TIME variable is now recognized by ksh and if set to an invalid
|
|
locale will show an error.
|
|
|
|
- Fixed BUG_CSUBSTDO: If standard output is closed before running a command
|
|
substitution, redirecting any other file descriptor no longer closes standard
|
|
output inside of the command substitution.
|
|
|
|
2021-04-05:
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a regression, introduced in ksh 93t+ 2009-07-31, that caused a command
|
|
like 'unset arr[3]' to unset not just element 3 of the array but all elements
|
|
starting from 3, if a range expansion like ${arr[5..10]} was previously used.
|
|
|
|
- Several fixes for arrays of a type created by 'enum' were backported from ksh
|
|
93v-, further to the two enum array fixes already applied on 2021-02-01:
|
|
1. The array[@]} expansion was fixed for associative arrays of an enum type.
|
|
2. Assignments now work correctly for all enum values for both indexed and
|
|
associative arrays.
|
|
3. 'unset' will now completely unset an associative array of an enum type.
|
|
|
|
2021-04-04:
|
|
|
|
- A bug was fixed that caused a broken prompt display upon redrawing the
|
|
command line if the last line of the prompt includes an xterm escape
|
|
sequence that is terminated by $'\a' (the bell character).
|
|
|
|
- Harden readonly variables. Readonly variables or arrays no longer allow
|
|
attribute changes which would otherwise allow their value to be altered.
|
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Expanded support for readonly variables within multidimensional arrays.
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2021-04-03:
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- Fixed a bug that caused the uname builtin's -d option to change the output
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of the -o option.
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- Fixed a possible crash that could occur when showing the domain name
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with the uname builtin's -d option.
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2021-03-31:
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- Fixed a bug that caused 'cd -' to ignore the current value of $OLDPWD
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when it's set to a different directory in a new scope.
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- Fixed a related bug that caused ksh to use the wrong value for $PWD
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when in a new scope.
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2021-03-29:
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- Fixed an intermittent crash that could occur in vi mode when using the 'b'
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or 'B' commands to go back one word.
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2021-03-27:
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- The 'test' builtin will now show an error message when given the invalid ']]'
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or '=~' operators; it also properly returns with exit status 2 now (instead
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of exit status 1). If the invalid operator is supported by [[ ... ]] (such
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as '=~'), test will now suggest the usage of [[ ... ]] instead.
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2021-03-22:
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- A new --globcasedetect shell option is added to ksh on OSs where we can check
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for a case-insensitive file system (currently macOS, Windows/Cygwin, Linux
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and QNX 7.0+). When this option is turned on, file name generation
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(globbing), as well as file name tab completion on interactive shells,
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automatically become case-insensitive on file systems where the difference
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between upper- and lowercase is ignored for file names. This is transparently
|
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determined for each directory, so a path pattern that spans multiple file
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systems can be part case-sensitive and part case-insensitive.
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The option is not compiled into ksh on systems where we do not know of a
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method to check for file system case insensitivity. The shell option can be
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force-compiled by setting SHOPT_GLOBCASEDET to 1 in src/cmd/ksh93/SHOPT.sh,
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but it won't have any effect on non-supported systems, so this is not
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recommended. It can be removed from ksh by setting SHOPT_GLOBCASEDET to 0.
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2021-03-17:
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- Fixed a bug with file name completion on the interactive shell in multibyte
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locales. Upon encountering two filenames with multibyte characters starting
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with the same byte, a partial multibyte character was autocompleted.
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2021-03-16:
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- Tilde expansion can now be extended or modified by defining a .sh.tilde.get
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or .sh.tilde.set discipline function. This replaces a 2004 undocumented
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attempt to add this functionality via a .sh.tilde built-in, which never
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worked and crashed the shell. See the manual for details on the new method.
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- Fixed a bug in interactive shells: if a variable used by the shell called
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a discipline function (such as PS1.get() or COLUMNS.set()), the value of $?
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was set to the exit status of the discipline function instead of the last
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command run.
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2021-03-15:
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- If the HOME variable is unset, the bare tilde ~ now expands to the current
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user's system-configured home directory instead of merely the username.
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- Tighten up potential invalid typeset attribute combos when more than
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one numeric type has been requested. In particular, -F and -i are no
|
|
longer masked over by previously given float types.
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2021-03-13:
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- Fixed a file descriptor leak that occurred when ksh used /dev/fd for
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process substitutions passed to functions.
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- Fixed a separate file descriptor leak that happened when a process
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substitution was passed to a nonexistent command.
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2021-03-11:
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- Fixed an intermittent bug that caused process substitutions to infinitely
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loop in Linux virtual machines that use systemd.
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- Fixed a bug that caused process substitutions to leave lingering processes
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if the command invoking them never reads from them.
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2021-03-09:
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- The ${!foo@} and ${!foo*} expansions yield variable names beginning with foo,
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but excluded 'foo' itself. The fix for this is now backported from 93v- beta.
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- test -v var, [ -v var ], and [[ -v var ]] did not correctly test if a
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variable is set or unset after it has been given a numeric attribute with
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'typeset' but not yet assigned a value. This has been fixed so that
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[[ -v var ]] is now equivalent to [[ -n ${var+set} ]] as documented.
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2021-03-07:
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- Fixed the typeset -p display of short integers without an assigned value.
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Also, the last -s or -l attribute option supplied for an integer is used.
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- Fixed a bug with -G/--globstar introduced on 2020-08-09: patterns did not
|
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match anything if any pathname component was '.' or '..', e.g. '**/./glob.c'
|
|
never matched. The 2020-08-09 fix does still apply to patterns like '.*'.
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- Enhancement to -G/--globstar: symbolic links to directories are now followed
|
|
if they match a normal (non-**) glob pattern. For example, if '/lnk' is a
|
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symlink to a directory, '/lnk/**' and '/l?k/**' now work as you would expect.
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- Fixed a bug introduced on 2021-02-11 that caused job control on interactive
|
|
ksh sessions to misbehave if the login shell was replaced by ksh using 'exec'.
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2021-03-06:
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- Fixed an old expansion bug: expansions of type ${var=value} and ${var:=value}
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did not perform an assignment and yielded the value 0 if 'var' was typeset as
|
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numeric (integer or float) but had not yet been assigned a value.
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- Fixed a bug introduced on 2020-08-19: Ctrl+D would break after an
|
|
interactive shell received SIGWINCH.
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|
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- Fixed a bug introduced on 2020-05-21: on an interactive shell, command lines
|
|
containing a syntax error were not added to the command history file and
|
|
sometimes corrupted the command history.
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2021-03-05:
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- Unbalanced quotes and backticks now correctly produce a syntax error
|
|
in -c scripts, 'eval', and backtick-style command substitutions.
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2021-03-04:
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- Fixed an arbitrary command execution vulnerability that occurred when
|
|
parsing the subscripts of arrays within arithmetic commands and expansion.
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2021-03-01:
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- Fixed the retention of size attributes when 'readonly' or 'typeset -r'
|
|
was applied to an existing variable.
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2021-02-26:
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- Fixed three long-standing bugs with tab completion in the emacs editor:
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1. The editor accepted literal tabs without escaping in certain cases,
|
|
causing buggy and inconsistent completion behaviour. Details:
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|
https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/71#issuecomment-656970959
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https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/71#issuecomment-657216472
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To enter a literal tab in emacs, you need to escape it with ^V or \.
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2. After completing a filename by choosing from a file completion menu,
|
|
the terminal cursor was placed one position too far to the right,
|
|
corrupting command line display. This happened with multiline active.
|
|
Details: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/71#issue-655093805
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3. A completion menu was displayed if the file name to be completed was
|
|
at the point where the rest of it started with a number, even if that
|
|
part uniquely identified it so the menu only showed one item. Details:
|
|
https://www.mail-archive.com/ast-users@lists.research.att.com/msg00436.html
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|
|
- A bug with ${.sh.fun} in combination with the DEBUG trap has been fixed.
|
|
The ${.sh.fun} variable wrongly continued to contain the name of the last
|
|
function executed by the DEBUG trap after the trap action completed.
|
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2021-02-21:
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- Fixed: The way that SIGWINCH was handled (i.e. the signal emitted when the
|
|
terminal window size changes) could cause strange emacs/vi editor behaviour.
|
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2021-02-20:
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|
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- Fixed a bug introduced on 2021-01-20: if a DEBUG trap action yielded exit
|
|
status 2, the execution of the next command was not skipped as documented.
|
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|
|
- Fixed multiple buffer overflows causing crashes in typeset -L/-R-/-Z.
|
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|
|
- Fixed typeset -Z zero-filling: if the number was zero, all zeros
|
|
were skipped when changing the initial size value of the -Z attribute,
|
|
leaving an empty string.
|
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|
2021-02-18:
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|
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- A bug was fixed in the 'read' builtin that caused it to fail to process
|
|
multibyte characters properly in Shift-JIS locales.
|
|
|
|
2021-02-17:
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|
|
- Emacs mode fixes:
|
|
1. Erasing a backslash while doing a reverse search (^R) no longer deletes
|
|
extra characters.
|
|
2. The backslash now escapes a subsequent interrupt (^C) as documented.
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a longstanding bug with shared-state command substitutions of the form
|
|
${ command; }. If these were executed in a subshell, changes made within
|
|
could survive not only the command substitution but also the parent subshell.
|
|
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|
2021-02-15:
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|
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- Fixed a regression introduced by ksh93 (was not in ksh88): an empty 'case'
|
|
list on a single line ('case x in esac') was a syntax error.
|
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|
|
- Fixed a bug in the emacs built-in editor, introduced on 2020-09-17, that
|
|
made the Meta-D and Meta-H keys delete single characters instead of words.
|
|
|
|
- A new 'backslashctrl' shell option has been added. It is on by default.
|
|
Turning it off (set +o backslashctrl or set --nobackslashctrl) disables the
|
|
special escaping behaviour of the backslash character in the emacs and vi
|
|
built-in editors. Particularly in the emacs editor, this makes it much easier
|
|
to go back, insert a forgotten backslash into a command, and then continue
|
|
editing without having your next cursor key replace your backslash with
|
|
garbage. Note that Ctrl+V (or whatever other character was set using
|
|
'stty lnext') always escapes all control characters in either editing mode.
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|
2021-02-14:
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|
|
- Due to a deficiency in some UNIX variants, the 'sleep' built-in command could
|
|
occasionally sleep for slightly less than the time specified. It now performs
|
|
an additional check against the system clock to make sure it sleeps at least
|
|
the given amount of time. Thanks to Lev Kujawski for adding this feature.
|
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|
|
- A few bugs were fixed that 93u+m introduced along with the new '-o posix'
|
|
shell option on 2020-09-01:
|
|
1. 'set --posix' now works as the expected equivalent of 'set -o posix'.
|
|
2. As of 2020-09-18, the posix option turns off braceexpand and turns on
|
|
letoctal. Any attempt to override that in a single command such as
|
|
'set -o posix +o letoctal' was quietly ignored. This now works as long
|
|
as the overriding option follows the posix option on the command line.
|
|
3. The --default option to 'set' now stops the 'posix' option, if set or
|
|
unset in the same 'set' command, from changing other options. This allows
|
|
the command output by 'set +o' to correctly restore the current options.
|
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|
|
2021-02-11:
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|
|
- Fixed a bug that caused ksh to lose track of all running background jobs if
|
|
a shared-state command substitution of the form v=${ cmd; } was used twice.
|
|
|
|
- Job control (the -m/-o monitor option) has been fixed for scripts. Background
|
|
jobs are now correctly assigned their own process group when run from
|
|
subshells (except command substitutions). The 'fg' command now also works for
|
|
scripts as it does on other shells, though 'wait' should be preferred.
|
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|
2021-02-05:
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|
|
- Fixed a longstanding bug that caused redirections that store a file
|
|
descriptor > 10 in a variable, such as {var}>file, to stop working if
|
|
brace expansion (the -B or -o braceexpand option) was turned off. (Note
|
|
that '{var}' is not a brace expansion as it does not contain ',' or '..'.)
|
|
|
|
2021-02-04:
|
|
|
|
- Fixed ksh crashing if an autoloaded function tried to autoload itself.
|
|
ksh now errors out gracefully with an "autoload loop" error message.
|
|
|
|
- Fixed crash on trying a very long nonexistent command.
|
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|
|
2021-02-01:
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|
|
- Fixed a bug in 'typeset': the '-s' modifier option for short integer will
|
|
now only be applied if the integer option '-i' is also present, avoiding
|
|
inconsistent results and a crash.
|
|
|
|
- Fixed: scalar arrays (-a) and associative arrays (-A) of a type created by
|
|
'enum' allowed values not specified by the enum type, corrupting results.
|
|
|
|
- Fixed: the "${array[@]}" expansion for associative arrays of a type created
|
|
by 'enum' expanded to random numbers instead of the array's values.
|
|
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|
2021-01-30:
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|
|
- The -x option to the 'command' built-in now causes it to bypass built-ins
|
|
so that it always runs/queries an external command. See 'command --man'.
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a bug in 'command -x' that caused the minimum exit status to be 1 if
|
|
a command with many arguments was divided into several command invocations.
|
|
|
|
- The 2020-08-16 fix is improved with a compile-time feature test that
|
|
detects if the OS requires extra bytes per argument in the arguments list,
|
|
maximising the efficiency of 'command -x' for the system it runs on.
|
|
|
|
2021-01-24:
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|
|
- Fixed a bug in 'typeset': combining the -u option with -F or -E caused the
|
|
variable to become a hexadecimal floating point in error.
|
|
|
|
- Fixed: an unquoted variable expansion evaluated in a DEBUG trap action caused
|
|
IFS field splitting to be deactivated in code executed after the trap action.
|
|
This bug was introduced in ksh 93t+ 2009-11-30.
|
|
|
|
2021-01-23:
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|
|
- Fixed: when the DEBUG trap was redefined in a subshell, the DEBUG trap in
|
|
the parent environment was corrupted or the shell crashed.
|
|
When a redirection was used in a DEBUG trap action, the trap was disabled.
|
|
DEBUG traps were also incorrectly inherited by subshells and ksh functions.
|
|
All this was caused by a bug introduced in ksh 93t 2008-06-24.
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|
2021-01-22:
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|
|
- Compile-time shell options can now be edited in src/cmd/ksh93/SHOPT.sh
|
|
before building.
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|
2021-01-20:
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|
|
- Fixed: executing a DEBUG trap in a command substitution had side effects
|
|
on the exit status ($?) of non-trap commands.
|
|
This bug was introduced in ksh 93t 2008-09-21.
|
|
|
|
- The typeset builtin command now gives an informative error message if an
|
|
incompatible combination of options is given.
|
|
|
|
2021-01-19:
|
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|
|
- Fixed a crash when using 'cd' in a virtual/non-forking subshell in a
|
|
situation where the current working directory cannot be determined.
|
|
|
|
2021-01-08:
|
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|
|
- Fixed a crash on exceeding the maximum size of the $PS1 prompt.
|
|
The maximum size is also increased from 160 to 256 bytes.
|
|
|
|
2021-01-07:
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a crash that could occur while ksh updated ${.sh.match}.
|
|
|
|
- Any changes to the hash table (a.k.a. "tracked aliases", i.e. cached $PATH
|
|
searches) in a subshell now no longer affect the parent shell's hash table.
|
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|
|
2021-01-05:
|
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|
|
- Fixed a bug in 'cd' that caused 'cd ./foo' to search for 'foo' in $CDPATH.
|
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|
|
2021-01-03:
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|
|
- The invocation
|
|
$ ksh +s
|
|
caused an infinite loop and corrupted ~/.sh_history. This is now fixed so
|
|
that the '-s' option is automatically turned on if there are no non-option
|
|
command arguments, as documented in Bolsky & Korn (1995), p. 261.
|
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|
|
2020-10-22:
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|
|
- Fixed: 'typeset -F0', 'typeset -E0', and 'typeset -X0' floating point
|
|
numerics having a precision of 0 with variable assignment.
|
|
'typeset -F0 x; x=4.56' worked but not 'typeset -F0 x=4.56'.
|
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|
2020-10-21:
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|
|
- Fixed: More concisely correct the exporting of uppercase and lowercase
|
|
variables when only the export and change case attributes were applied.
|
|
This fix improves upon the previous 2020-09-30 modifications.
|
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|
|
2020-10-06:
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|
|
- The security of virtual/non-forking subshells that locally change the present
|
|
working directory (PWD) using 'cd' has been improved in two ways.
|
|
1. On entering a subshell, if the parent shell's PWD proves inaccessible upon
|
|
saving it, the subshell will now fork into a separate process so the
|
|
parent process never changes its PWD, avoiding the need to restore it.
|
|
2. If some attack renders the parent shell's PWD unrestorable *after* ksh
|
|
enters a virtual subshell, ksh will now error out on exiting it, as
|
|
continuing would mean running arbitrary commands in the wrong PWD.
|
|
Hopefully this is an acceptable compromise between performance and security.
|
|
The proper fix would be to always fork a subshell when changing the working
|
|
directory within it, but the resulting slowdown would likely be unpopular.
|
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|
|
2020-09-30:
|
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|
|
- Fixed: 'typeset -xu' and 'typeset -xl' (export + change case) failed to
|
|
change the case of a variable's value in certain conditions.
|
|
|
|
- A ksh 93u+ regression was fixed in the combination of ERR trap handling and
|
|
the 'pipefail' option. A pipeline now triggers the ERR trap correctly again
|
|
if the 'pipefail' option is active and any of the pipeline elements return a
|
|
nonzero exit status. Similarly, if both the 'errexit' and 'pipefail' options
|
|
are active, ksh now correctly exits if any pipeline element returns nonzero.
|
|
|
|
- Autoloading a function no longer causes the calling script's $LINENO to be
|
|
off by the number of lines in the function definition file that was loaded.
|
|
This also corrects line numbers in warnings and error messages.
|
|
|
|
2020-09-28:
|
|
|
|
- While executing a ksh-style function, ksh 93u+ ignored all signals for which
|
|
the function had not set a local trap, except for SIGINT and SIGQUIT. This
|
|
was contrary to the manual, which states that a "trap condition that is not
|
|
caught or ignored by the function causes the function to terminate and the
|
|
condition to be passed on to the caller". This has now been fixed in 93u+m to
|
|
match the documentation, so that e.g. global traps work as expected again.
|
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|
|
2020-09-27:
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|
|
- The shell's lexical analysis of a 'case' statement within a do...done block
|
|
within a command substitution of the form $(...) has been fixed so that code
|
|
like the following no longer throws a spurious syntax error:
|
|
x=$(for i in 1; do case $i in word) true;; esac; done)
|
|
Previously, this required a leading parenthesis before 'word', although the
|
|
syntax error claimed that the ';;' was unexpected.
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|
|
2020-09-26:
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|
|
- 'whence -f' now completely ignores the existence of functions, as documented.
|
|
|
|
- ksh now does not import environment variables whose names are not valid in
|
|
the shell language, as it would be impossible to change or unset them.
|
|
However, they stay in the environment to be passed to child processes.
|
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|
2020-09-25:
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|
|
- whence -v/-a now reports the path to the file that an "undefined" (i.e.
|
|
autoloadable) function will be loaded from when invoked, if found in $FPATH.
|
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|
|
- When ksh invoked a shell script that does not have a leading
|
|
#!/hashbang/path, 'ps' and /proc/<PID>/cmdline showed corrupted output if
|
|
the new script's command line was shorter than that of the invoking script.
|
|
This has been fixed by wiping the arguments buffer correctly.
|
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|
|
2020-09-24:
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|
|
- An omission made it impossible to turn off brace expansion within command
|
|
substitutions (`...`, $(...) or ${ ...; }) as the code for parsing these
|
|
did not check the -B/braceexpand option. This check has now been added.
|
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|
|
2020-09-23:
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|
|
- Fixed a crash that could occur when running a pipeline containing
|
|
backtick-style command substitutions with job control enabled.
|
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|
|
- Fixed a crash that occurred when using 'typeset -u' or 'typeset -l' on a
|
|
special variable such as PATH, ENV or SHELL.
|
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|
|
2020-09-21:
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|
|
- A bug was fixed that caused command substitutions embedded in here-documents
|
|
to lose the output of the commands they ran. This bug occurred when ksh was
|
|
compiled with the SHOPT_SPAWN compile-time option.
|
|
|
|
- Bugfix: var=$(< file) now reads the file even if the standard input, standard
|
|
output and/or standard error file descriptors are closed.
|
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2020-09-20:
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- Bugfix: when whence -v/-a found an "undefined" (i.e. autoloadable) function
|
|
in $FPATH, it actually loaded the function as a side effect of reporting on
|
|
its existence. Now it only reports, as documented.
|
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|
|
- 'whence' will now canonicalise paths properly, resolving '.' and '..'
|
|
elements in paths given to it. It also no longer prefixes a spurious
|
|
double slash when doing something like 'cd / && whence bin/echo'.
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|
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2020-09-18:
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|
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- Setting the 'posix' option now turns off the 'braceexpand' option, as brace
|
|
expansion is not specified by POSIX and potentially incompatible with sh
|
|
scripts. In addition, 'set -o posix' now turns on the 'letoctal' option
|
|
instead of controlling that behaviour directly. 'set +o posix' does the
|
|
reverse of these.
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2020-09-17:
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- In the vi and emacs line editors, repeat count parameters can now also be
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used for the arrow keys and the forward-delete key. E.g., in emacs mode,
|
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<ESC> 7 <left-arrow> will now move the cursor seven positions to the left.
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In vi control mode, this would be entered as: 7 <left-arrow>.
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- When a background job on an interactive shell received SIGINT or SIGPIPE, the
|
|
job termination message was empty. It now shows "Interrupt" or "Broken Pipe".
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|
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- The -m (-o monitor) option is no longer ignored when specified on the shell
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invocation command line.
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- A script that is interrupted with Ctrl+C now terminates its background jobs
|
|
as expected, unless the -m (-o monitor) option was turned on.
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2020-09-14:
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|
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- Corrected rounding of floating point values by ksh's printf %f formatting
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|
operator. Fix contributed by @hyenias.
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- The forward-delete key now works as expected in emacs and vi editing modes.
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2020-09-11:
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- The 'command' regular builtin utility (which runs a simple command, removing
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special properties) has been made fully POSIX compliant.
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1. The 'command' name can now result from an expansion (fixing BUG_CMDEXPAN),
|
|
e.g. 'c=command; "$c" ls' and 'set -- command ls; "$@"' now work.
|
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2. If and only if the POSIX mode (the new -o posix shell option) is active,
|
|
then the 'command' utility now disables not only "special" but also
|
|
"declaration" properties of builtin commands that it invokes, meaning:
|
|
a. arguments that start with a variable name followed by '=' are
|
|
always treated as regular words subject to normal shell syntax;
|
|
b. 'command' can now stop the shell from exiting if a command that it
|
|
invokes tries to modify a readonly variable (fixing BUG_CMDSPEXIT).
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- The 'history' (== 'hist -l') and 'r' (== 'hist -s') interactive shell
|
|
history commands have reverted to preset aliases and are now only loaded if
|
|
the shell is interactive and not initialised in POSIX mode. This avoids
|
|
unneeded conflicts with external commands by these names, particularly 'r'.
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2020-09-09:
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- Fixed BUG_LOOPRET2 and related bugs. The 'exit' and 'return' commands without
|
|
an argument now correctly default to passing down the exit status of the
|
|
last-run command. Tests like the following, in which the last-run command is
|
|
'false', now correctly output 1 instead of 0:
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fn() { return || true; }; false; fn; echo "$?"
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fn() { while return; do true; done; }; false; fn; echo "$?"
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fn() { for i in 1; do return; done; }; false; fn; echo "$?"
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fn() { case 1 in 1) return ;; esac; }; false; fn; echo "$?"
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fn() { { return; } 2>&1; }; false; fn; echo "$?"
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2020-09-05:
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- Fixed erroneous syntax errors in parameter expansions such as ${var:-wor)d}
|
|
or ${var+w(ord}. The parentheses now correctly lose their normal grammatical
|
|
meaning within the braces. Fix by Eric Scrivner backported from ksh2020.
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2020-09-04:
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- Fixed a bug that caused a syntax error to be thrown if the special parameter
|
|
expansions ${!} and ${$} (including braces) were used within a here-document.
|
|
Bug reported by @Saikiran-m on GitHub.
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2020-09-01:
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- The bash-style '&>file' redirection shorthand (for '>file 2>&1') is now
|
|
always recognised and not only when running rc/profile init scripts. It no
|
|
longer issues a warning. This brings ksh93 in line with mksh, bash and zsh.
|
|
|
|
- A long-form shell option '-o posix' has been added, which implements a
|
|
mode for better compatibility with the POSIX standard. It is automatically
|
|
turned on if ksh is invoked under the name 'sh'.
|
|
For now, it:
|
|
* disables the &> redirection shorthand
|
|
* causes the 'let' arithmetic command to recognise octal numbers by
|
|
leading zeros regardless of the setting of the 'letoctal' option
|
|
* causes file descriptors > 2 to be left open when invoking another program
|
|
* makes the <> redirection operator default to stdin instead of stdout
|
|
(this keeps the 2020-05-13 BUG_REDIRIO fix for the POSIX mode while
|
|
restoring traditional ksh93 behaviour for backwards compatibility)
|
|
* disables a noncompliant 'test -t' == 'test -t 1' compatibility hack
|
|
* disables passing an exported variable's attributes (such as integer or
|
|
readonly) to a new ksh process through the environment
|
|
|
|
2020-08-19:
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|
|
- Sped up the 'read' command on most systems by 15-25%. Fixed a hanging bug
|
|
on reading from a FIFO that could occur on macOS.
|
|
|
|
2020-08-17:
|
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|
|
- 'command -p' incorrectly used the hash table entry (a.k.a. tracked alias)
|
|
for a command if its path was previously hashed. It has now been fixed so
|
|
it never consults the hash table.
|
|
|
|
2020-08-16:
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|
|
- Fixed 'command -x' on macOS, Linux and Solaris by accounting for a 16-byte
|
|
argument alignment. If execution does fail, it now aborts with an internal
|
|
error message instead of entering an infinite retry loop.
|
|
|
|
2020-08-13:
|
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|
|
- Fixed memory leaks and a crashing bug that occurred when defining and
|
|
running functions in subshells.
|
|
|
|
2020-08-11:
|
|
|
|
- Fixed an intermittent crash upon running a large number of subshells.
|
|
|
|
2020-08-10:
|
|
|
|
- A number of fixes have been applied to the printf formatting directives
|
|
%H and %#H (as well as the undocumented equivalents %(html)q and %(url)q):
|
|
1. Both formatters have been made multibyte/UTF-8 aware, and no longer
|
|
delete multibyte characters. Invalid UTF-8 byte sequences are rendered
|
|
as ASCII question marks.
|
|
2. %H no longer wrongly changes spaces to non-breaking spaces ( ).
|
|
3. %H now converts the single quote (') to '%#39;' instead of '''
|
|
which is not a valid entity in all HTML versions.
|
|
4. %#H failed to encode some reserved characters (e.g. '?') while encoding
|
|
some unreserved ones (e.g. '~'). It now percent-encodes all characters
|
|
except those 'unreserved' as per RFC3986 (ASCII alphanumeric plus -._~).
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a crash that occurred intermittently after running an external
|
|
command from a command substitution expanded from the $PS1 shell prompt.
|
|
|
|
2020-08-09:
|
|
|
|
- File name generation (a.k.a. pathname expansion, a.k.a. globbing) now
|
|
never matches the special navigational names '.' (current directory) and
|
|
'..' (parent directory). This change makes a pattern like .* useful; it
|
|
now matches all hidden files (dotfiles) in the current directory, without
|
|
the harmful inclusion of '.' and '..'.
|
|
|
|
2020-08-08:
|
|
|
|
- Argument checking in the 'redirect' builtin command (see 2020-06-11) has
|
|
been improved to error out before executing redirections. For example, an
|
|
error like 'redirect ls >foo.txt' now will not create 'foo.txt' and will
|
|
not leave your standard output permanently redirected to it.
|
|
|
|
2020-08-06:
|
|
|
|
- Added the '${.sh.pid}' variable as an alternative to Bash's '$BASHPID'.
|
|
This variable is set to the current shell's PID, unlike '$$' (which is
|
|
set to the main shell's PID). In virtual subshells '${.sh.pid}' is not
|
|
changed from its previous value, while in forked subshells '${.sh.pid}'
|
|
is set to the subshell's process ID.
|
|
|
|
2020-08-05:
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a bug in functions that caused ksh to crash when an array with an
|
|
unset method was turned into a multidimensional array.
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a bug that caused scripts to continue running after over-shifting
|
|
in a function when the function call had a redirection.
|
|
|
|
- When generating shellquoted strings (such as with 'printf %q'), the
|
|
hexadecimal value of a quoted unprintable character was not protected with
|
|
square braces, e.g. 0x12 followed by '3' would be quoted as '\x123', which
|
|
is a different value. Such strings are now quoted like '\x[12]3' if the
|
|
next character is a hexadecimal digit.
|
|
|
|
2020-07-31:
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a bug that caused multidimensional associative arrays to be created
|
|
with an extra array member.
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a bug that caused the expansions of positional parameters $1 - $9,
|
|
as well as special parameters such as $? and $-, to corrupt any multibyte
|
|
characters immediately following the expansion if a UTF-8 locale is active.
|
|
|
|
2020-07-29:
|
|
|
|
- On a ksh compiled to use fork(2) to run external commands, a bug has been
|
|
fixed that caused signals (such as SIGINT, Ctrl+C) to be ignored within a
|
|
non-forked subshell after running an external command within that subshell.
|
|
|
|
2020-07-25:
|
|
|
|
- Fixed BUG_MULTIBIFS: Multibyte characters can now be used as IFS
|
|
delimiters. "$*" was incorrectly joining positional parameters on
|
|
the first byte of a multibyte character. This was due to truncation
|
|
based on the incorrect assumption the IFS would never be larger
|
|
than a single byte.
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a bug that caused the sleep builtin to continue after being given
|
|
an unrecognized option. 'sleep -: 1' will now show a usage message and
|
|
exit instead of sleep for one second.
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a bug that caused the 'typeset' variable attributes -a, -A, -l, and
|
|
-u to leak out of a subshell if they were set without assigning a value.
|
|
|
|
2020-07-23:
|
|
|
|
- Fixed an infinite loop that could occur when ksh is the system's /bin/sh.
|
|
|
|
- A command substitution that is run on the same line as a here-document
|
|
will no longer cause a syntax error.
|
|
|
|
2020-07-22:
|
|
|
|
- Fixed two race conditions when running external commands on
|
|
interactive shells with job control active.
|
|
|
|
2020-07-20:
|
|
|
|
- If a shell function and a built-in command by the same name exist,
|
|
'whence -a' and 'type -a' now report both.
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a bug that caused file descriptors opened with 'redirect' or 'exec'
|
|
to survive a subshell environment after exiting it.
|
|
|
|
2020-07-19:
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a crash that occurred in the '.' command when using kshdb.
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a crash that occurred when attempting to use redirection with an
|
|
invalid file descriptor.
|
|
|
|
2020-07-16:
|
|
|
|
- The 'history' and 'r' default aliases have been made regular built-ins,
|
|
leaving zero default aliases.
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a bug that caused 'sleep -s' to have no effect with intervals longer
|
|
than 30 seconds.
|
|
|
|
- The accuracy of the sleep builtin has been improved. It no longer ignores
|
|
microseconds and doesn't add extra milliseconds when the interval is less
|
|
than 31 seconds.
|
|
|
|
2020-07-15:
|
|
|
|
- The 'autoload', 'compound', 'float', 'functions', 'integer' and 'nameref'
|
|
default aliases have been converted into regular built-in commands, so
|
|
that 'unalias -a' does not remove them. Shell functions can now use
|
|
these names, which improves compatibility with POSIX shell scripts.
|
|
|
|
- The End key escape sequence '^[[F' is now handled in the emacs and vi editing
|
|
modes. The End key moves the cursor to the end of the line (in contrast to
|
|
the Home key doing the opposite).
|
|
|
|
2020-07-14:
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a bug that caused 'set -b' to have no effect.
|
|
|
|
- Following the 'time' keyword, the 'times' builtin command now also
|
|
supports millisecond precision.
|
|
|
|
2020-07-13:
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a fork bomb that could occur when the vi editor was sent SIGTSTP
|
|
while running in a ksh script.
|
|
|
|
- Appending a lone percent to the end of a format specifier no longer
|
|
causes a syntax error. The extra percent will be treated as a literal
|
|
'%', like in Bash and zsh.
|
|
|
|
- The 'time' keyword now has proper support for millisecond precision.
|
|
Although this feature was previously documented, the 'time' keyword
|
|
only supported up to centisecond precision, which caused a command
|
|
like the one below to return '0.000' on certain operating systems:
|
|
$ TIMEFORMAT='%3R'; time sleep .003
|
|
|
|
- The 'time' keyword now zero-pads seconds less than ten (like mksh).
|
|
|
|
2020-07-10:
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a bug that caused types created with 'typeset -T' to throw an error
|
|
when used if the type name started with a lowercase 'a'.
|
|
|
|
- A potential crash due to memory corruption when using many file
|
|
descriptors has been fixed.
|
|
|
|
2020-07-09:
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a crash on syntax error when sourcing/dotting multiple files.
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a crash when listing indexed arrays.
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a memory leak when restoring PATH when temporarily setting PATH
|
|
for a command (e.g. PATH=/foo/bar command ...) or in a virtual subshell.
|
|
|
|
- Combining ((...)) with redirections no longer causes a syntax error
|
|
due to the parser handling '>' incorrectly.
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a bug that corrupted KIA/CQL cross-reference databases created using
|
|
ksh's -R option; shell warnings were wrongly included in the database file.
|
|
|
|
- The shell's quoting algorithm (used in xtrace, printf %q, and more) has been
|
|
fixed for UTF-8 (Unicode) locales; it no longer needlessly and inconsistently
|
|
encodes normal printable UTF-8 characters into hexadecimal \u[xxxx] codes.
|
|
|
|
2020-07-07:
|
|
|
|
- Four of the date formats accepted by 'printf %()T' have had their
|
|
functionality altered to the common behavior of date(1):
|
|
- '%k' and '%l' print the current hour with blank padding, the former
|
|
based on a 24-hour clock and the latter a twelve hour clock. These
|
|
are common extensions present on Linux and *BSD.
|
|
- '%f' prints a date with the format string '%Y.%m.%d-%H:%M:%S' (BusyBox).
|
|
- '%q' prints the quarter of the year (GNU).
|
|
|
|
2020-07-06:
|
|
|
|
- 'notty' is now written to the ksh auditing file instead of '(null)' if
|
|
the user's tty could not be determined.
|
|
|
|
- Unsetting an associative array no longer causes a memory leak to occur.
|
|
|
|
2020-07-05:
|
|
|
|
- In UTF-8 locales, fix corruption of the shell's internal string quoting
|
|
algorithm (as used by xtrace, 'printf %q', and more) that occurred when
|
|
the processing of a multibyte character was interrupted.
|
|
|
|
2020-07-03:
|
|
|
|
- Backslashes are no longer escaped in the raw Bourne Shell-like editing
|
|
mode in multibyte locales, i.e. backslashes are no longer treated like
|
|
Control-V if the emacs and vi modes are disabled.
|
|
|
|
- Deleting a backslash in vi mode with Control-H or Backspace now only
|
|
escapes a backslash if it was the previous input. This means erasing a
|
|
string such as 'ab\\\' will only cause the first backslash to escape a
|
|
Backspace as '^?', like in emacs mode.
|
|
|
|
- An odd interaction with Backspace when the last character of a separate
|
|
buffer created with Shift-C was '\' has been fixed. '^?' will no longer
|
|
be output repeatedly when attempting to erase a separate buffer with
|
|
a Backspace. Note that buffers created with Shift-C are not meant to be
|
|
erasable:
|
|
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/vi.html#tag_20_152_13_49
|
|
|
|
- The 'kill' builtin now supports the SIGINFO signal (on operating systems
|
|
with support for SIGINFO).
|
|
|
|
2020-07-02:
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a crash that occurred if a directory named '.paths' existed in any
|
|
directory listed in $PATH. The fix was to only read '.paths' if it is a
|
|
regular file or a symlink to a regular file.
|
|
|
|
2020-06-30:
|
|
|
|
- 'read -u' will no longer crash with a memory fault when given an out of
|
|
range or negative file descriptor.
|
|
|
|
- The '=~' operator no longer raises an error if a regular expression
|
|
combines the '{x}' quantifier with a sub-expression.
|
|
|
|
2020-06-28:
|
|
|
|
- Variables created with 'typeset -RF' no longer cause a memory fault
|
|
when accessed.
|
|
|
|
- Unsetting an array that was turned into a compound variable will no
|
|
longer cause silent memory corruption.
|
|
|
|
- Variables created with 'readonly' in functions are now set to the
|
|
specified value instead of nothing. Note that 'readonly' does not
|
|
create a function-local scope, unlike 'typeset -r' which does.
|
|
|
|
2020-06-26:
|
|
|
|
- Changing to a directory that has a name starting with a '.' will no
|
|
longer fail if preceded by '../' (i.e. 'cd ../.local' will now work).
|
|
|
|
2020-06-24:
|
|
|
|
- Fixed buggy tab completion of tilde-expanded paths such as
|
|
~/some in 'vi' mode.
|
|
|
|
- In the raw/default Bourne Shell-like editing mode that occurs when neither
|
|
the 'emacs' nor the 'vi' shell option is active:
|
|
* tab completion is now correctly disabled, instead of enabled and broken;
|
|
* entering tab characters now moves the cursor the correct amount.
|
|
|
|
2020-06-23:
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a bug that caused combining process substitution with redirection
|
|
to create a bizarre file in the user's current working directory.
|
|
|
|
- Using process substitution while the shell is interactive no longer
|
|
causes the process ID of the asynchronous process to be printed.
|
|
|
|
2020-06-22:
|
|
|
|
- The 'stop' and 'suspend' default aliases have been converted into regular
|
|
built-in commands, so that 'unalias -a' does not remove them, 'suspend'
|
|
can do a couple of sanity checks, and something like
|
|
cmd=stop; $cmd $!
|
|
will now work. See 'stop --man' and 'suspend --man' for more information.
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a bug that caused the kill and stop commands to segfault when given
|
|
a non-existent job.
|
|
|
|
- Nested functions no longer ignore variable assignments that were prefixed
|
|
to their parent function, i.e. 'VAR=foo func' will now set $VAR to 'foo'
|
|
in the scope of any nested function 'func' runs.
|
|
|
|
2020-06-20:
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a bug that caused setting the following variables as readonly in
|
|
a virtual subshell to affect the environment outside of the subshell:
|
|
$_
|
|
${.sh.name}
|
|
${.sh.subscript}
|
|
${.sh.level}
|
|
$RANDOM
|
|
$LINENO
|
|
|
|
- Fixed two bugs that caused 'unset .sh.lineno' to always produce a memory
|
|
fault and '(unset .sh.level)' to memory fault when run in nested
|
|
functions.
|
|
|
|
2020-06-18:
|
|
|
|
- A two decade old bug that caused 'whence -a' to base the path of
|
|
tracked aliases on the user's current working directory has been
|
|
fixed. Now the real path to tracked aliases is shown when '-a' is
|
|
passed to the whence command.
|
|
|
|
2020-06-17:
|
|
|
|
- A bug in 'unset -f' was fixed that prevented shell functions from
|
|
unsetting themselves while they were running. A POSIX function no longer
|
|
crashes when doing so, and a KornShell-style function no longer silently
|
|
ignores an 'unset -f' on itself. A function of either form now continues
|
|
running after unsetting itself, and is removed at the end of the run.
|
|
|
|
2020-06-16:
|
|
|
|
- Passing the '-d' flag to the read builtin will no longer cause the '-r'
|
|
flag to be discarded when 'read -r -d' is run.
|
|
|
|
- Fix BUG_CMDSPASGN: preceding a "special builtin"[*] with 'command' now
|
|
prevents preceding invocation-local variable assignments from becoming global.
|
|
[*] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_14
|
|
|
|
2020-06-15:
|
|
|
|
- The 'source' alias has been converted into a regular built-in command.
|
|
|
|
- Functions that set variables in a virtual subshell will no longer affect
|
|
variables of the same name outside of the virtual subshell's environment.
|
|
|
|
- Terse usage messages written by builtin commands now point the user to
|
|
the --help and --man options for more information.
|
|
|
|
2020-06-14:
|
|
|
|
- 'read -S' is now able to correctly handle strings with double quotes
|
|
nested inside of double quotes.
|
|
|
|
2020-06-13:
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a timezone name determination bug on FreeBSD that caused the
|
|
output from "LC_ALL=C printf '%T\n' now" to print the wrong time zone name.
|
|
|
|
2020-06-11:
|
|
|
|
- Fixed a bug that caused running 'builtin -d' on a special builtin to
|
|
delete it. The man page for the 'builtin' command documents that special
|
|
builtins cannot be deleted.
|
|
|
|
- POSIX compliance fix: It is now possible to set shell functions named
|
|
'alias' or 'unalias', overriding the commands by the same names. In
|
|
technical terms, they are now regular builtins, not special builtins.
|
|
|
|
- The redirect='command exec' alias has been converted to a regular
|
|
'redirect' builtin command that only accepts I/O redirections, which
|
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persist as in 'exec'. This means that:
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* 'unlias -a' no longer removes the 'redirect' command;
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* users no longer accidentally get logged out of their shells if
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they type something intuitive but wrong, like 'redirect ls >file'.
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- The undocumented 'login' and 'newgrp' builtin commands have been removed.
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These replaced your shell session with the external commands by the same
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name, as in 'exec'. If an error occurred (e.g. due to a typo), you would
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end up immediately logged out.
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If you do want this behaviour, you can restore it by setting:
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alias login='exec login'
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alias newgrp='exec newgrp'
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2020-06-10:
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- The 'hash' utility is now a regular builtin instead of an alias to
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'alias -t --'. The functionality of the old command has been removed
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from the alias builtin.
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- 'set +r' is no longer able to unset the restricted option. This change
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makes the behavior of 'set +r' identical to 'set +o restricted'.
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2020-06-09:
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- The 'unalias' builtin will now return a non-zero status if it tries
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to remove a previously set alias that is not currently set.
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2020-06-08:
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- Fix an issue with the up arrow key in Emacs editing mode.
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Emacs editing mode is bugged in ksh93u+ and ksh2020. Let's
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say you were to run the following commands after starting
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a fresh instance of ksh:
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$ alias foo=true
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$ unalias foo
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If you type 'a' and then press the up arrow on your keyboard,
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ksh will complete 'a' to 'alias foo=true' by doing a reverse
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search for the last command that starts with 'a'.
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Run the alias command again, then type 'u' and press the up
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arrow key again. If ksh is in Vi mode, you will get 'unalias foo',
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but in Emacs mode you will get 'alias foo=true' again.
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All subsequent commands were ignored as ksh was saving the first
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command and only based later searches off of it.
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- If 'set -u'/'set -o nounset' is active, then the shell now errors out if a
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nonexistent positional parameter such as $1, $2, ... is accessed, as other
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shells do and POSIX requires. (This does *not* apply to "$@" and "$*".)
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- If 'set -u'/'set -o nounset' is active, then the shell now errors out if $!
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is accessed before the shell has launched any background process.
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- Removed support for an obscure early 1990s Bell Labs file system research
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project called 3DFS, which has not existed for decades. This removes:
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- an obnoxious default alias 2d='set -f;_2d' that turned off your file name
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wildcard expansion and then tried to run a nonexistent '_2d' command
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- undocumented builtins 'vmap' and 'vpath' that only printed error messages
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- a non-functional -V unary operator for the test and [[ commands
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- If the last program run by a ksh script exits with a signal (e.g. crashed),
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ksh itself now exits normally instead of repeating that same signal.
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In addition, using 'exit x' for x > 256 no longer makes ksh issue a signal.
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2020-06-06:
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- The 'times' command is now a builtin command that conforms to POSIX
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instead of an alias for the 'time' command. It displays the accumulated
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user and system CPU times, one line with the times used by the shell and
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another with those used by all of the shell's child processes.
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https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_27
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- The default aliases command='command ' and nohup='nohup ' have been
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removed because they caused breakage in an attempt to circumvent other
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|
breakage which is being fixed. In the unlikely even that anyone still
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needs alias substitution to continue on the command argument following
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'command' or 'nohup', it's easy to set these aliases yourself.
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2020-06-05:
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- Fix a bug that caused special variables such as PATH, LANG, LC_ALL,
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etc. to lose their effect after being unset in a subshell. For example:
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(unset PATH; PATH=/dev/null; ls); : wrongly ran 'ls'
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(unset LC_ALL; LC_ALL=badlocale); : failed to print a diagnostic
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This also fixes BUG_KUNSETIFS: unsetting IFS in a subshell failed if IFS
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was set to the empty value in the parent shell.
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- Fix crashes on some systems, including at least a crash in 'print -v' on
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|
macOS, by eliminating an invalid/undefined use of memccpy() on overlapping
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buffers in the commonly used sfputr() function.
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- Fix the ${.sh.subshell} level counter; it is no longer reset to zero when a
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|
non-forked subshell happens to fork into a separate process for some reason
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|
(an internal implementation detail that should be unnoticeable to scripts).
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2020-06-04:
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- Fix BUG_KBGPID: the $! special parameter was not set if a background job
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|
(somecommand &) or co-process (somecommand |&) was launched as the only
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|
command within a braces block with an attached redirection, for example:
|
|
{
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|
somecommand &
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|
} >&2
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|
With the bug, $! was unchanged; now it contains the PID of somecommand.
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2020-05-31:
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- Fix a bug in autoloading functions. Directories in the path search list
|
|
which should be skipped (e.g. because they don't exist) did not interact
|
|
correctly with autoloaded functions, so that a function to autoload was
|
|
not always found correctly.
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|
Details: https://github.com/att/ast/issues/1454
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2020-05-30:
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- Fix POSIX compliance of 'test'/'[' exit status on error. The command now
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|
returns status 2 instead of 1 when given an invalid number or arithmetic
|
|
expression, e.g.:
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|
[ 123 -eq 123x ]; echo $?
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|
now outputs 2 instead of 1.
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|
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2020-05-29:
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|
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- Fix BUG_FNSUBSH: functions can now be correctly redefined and unset in
|
|
subshell environments (such as ( ... ), $(command substitutions), etc).
|
|
Before this fix, this was silently ignored, causing the function by the
|
|
same name from the parent shell environment to be executed instead.
|
|
fn() { echo mainsh; }
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|
(fn() { echo subsh; }; fn); fn
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|
This now correctly outputs "subsh mainsh" instead of "mainsh mainsh".
|
|
ls() { echo "ls executed"; }
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|
(unset -f ls; ls); ls
|
|
This now correctly lists your directory and then prints "ls executed",
|
|
instead of printing "ls executed" twice.
|
|
|
|
- Fix a similar bug with aliases. These can now be correctly unset
|
|
in subshell environments.
|
|
|
|
2020-05-21:
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|
|
|
- Fix truncating of files with the combined redirections '<>;file' and
|
|
'<#pattern'. The bug was caused by out-of-sync streams.
|
|
Details and discussion: https://github.com/att/ast/issues/61
|
|
|
|
- Patched code injection vulnerability CVE-2019-14868. As a result, you can
|
|
no longer use expressions in imported numeric environment variables; only
|
|
integer literals are allowed.
|
|
|
|
2020-05-20:
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|
|
|
- Fix BUG_ISSETLOOP. Expansions like ${var+set} remained static when used
|
|
within a 'for', 'while' or 'until' loop; the expansions din't change along
|
|
with the state of the variable, so they could not be used to check whether a
|
|
variable is set within a loop if the state of that variable changed in the
|
|
course of the loop.
|
|
|
|
- Fix BUG_IFSISSET. ${IFS+s} always yielded 's', and [[ -v IFS ]] always
|
|
yielded true, even if IFS is unset. This applied to IFS only.
|
|
|
|
2020-05-19:
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|
|
|
- Fix 'command -p'. The -p option causes the operating system's standard
|
|
utilities path (as output by 'getconf PATH') to be searched instead of $PATH.
|
|
Before this fix, this was broken on non-interactive shells as the internal
|
|
variable holding the default PATH value was not correctly initialised.
|
|
|
|
2020-05-16:
|
|
|
|
- Fix 'test -t 1', '[ -t 1 ]', '[[ -t 1 ]]' in command substitutions.
|
|
Standard output (file descriptor 1) tested as being on a terminal within a
|
|
command substitution, which makes no sense as the command substitution is
|
|
supposed to be catching standard output.
|
|
v=$(echo begincomsub
|
|
[ -t 1 ] && echo oops
|
|
echo endcomsub)
|
|
echo "$v"
|
|
This now does not output "oops".
|
|
|
|
2020-05-14:
|
|
|
|
- Fix syncing history when print -s -f is used. For example, the
|
|
following now correctly adds a 'cd' command to the history:
|
|
print -s -f 'cd -- %q\n' "$PWD"
|
|
Ref.: https://github.com/att/ast/issues/425
|
|
https://github.com/att/ast/pull/442
|
|
|
|
- Fix BUG_PUTIOERR: Output builtins now correctly detect
|
|
input/output errors. This allows scripts to check for a nonzero exit
|
|
status on the 'print', 'printf' and 'echo' builtins and prevent possible
|
|
infinite loops if SIGPIPE is ignored.
|
|
|
|
- Add a convenient bin/run_ksh_tests script to the source tree that
|
|
sets up the necessary environment and runs the ksh regression tests.
|
|
|
|
2020-05-13:
|
|
|
|
- Fix BUG_CASELIT: an undocumented 'case' pattern matching misbehaviour that
|
|
goes back to the original Bourne shell, but wasn't discovered until 2018.
|
|
If a pattern doesn't match as a pattern, it was tried again as a literal
|
|
string. This broke common validation use cases, e.g.:
|
|
n='[0-9]'
|
|
case $n in
|
|
( [0-9] ) echo "$n is a number" ;;
|
|
esac
|
|
would output "[0-9] is a number" as the literal string fallback matches the
|
|
pattern. As this misbehaviour was never documented anywhere (not for Bourne,
|
|
ksh88, or ksh93), and it was never replicated in other shells (not even in
|
|
ksh88 clones pdksh and mksh), it is unlikely any scripts rely on it.
|
|
Of course, a literal string fallback, should it be needed, is trivial to
|
|
implement correctly without this breakage:
|
|
case $n in
|
|
( [0-9] | "[0-9]") echo "$n is a number or the number pattern" ;;
|
|
esac
|
|
Ref.: https://github.com/att/ast/issues/476
|
|
|
|
- Fix BUG_REDIRIO: ksh used to redirect standard output by default when no
|
|
file descriptor was specified with the rarely used '<>' reading/writing
|
|
redirection operator. It now redirects standard input by default, as POSIX
|
|
specifies and as all other POSIX shells do. To redirect standard output
|
|
for reading and writing, you now need '1<>'.
|
|
Ref.: https://github.com/att/ast/issues/75
|
|
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_07_07
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