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Martijn Dekker cafe33f048 Fix 'test -t 1' in $(command substitutions)
Standard output (FD 1) tested as being on a terminal within a
command substitution, which makes no sense as the command
substitution is supposed to be catching standard output.
    ksh -c 'v=$(echo begincomsub
                [ -t 1 ] && echo oops
                echo endcomsub)
            echo "$v"'
This should not output "oops".

This is one of the many bugs with ksh93 virtual (non-forked)
subshells. On the abandoned Vashist/Rader ksh2020 branch, this bug
was fixed by changing quite a lot of code, which introduced and/or
exposed another bug:
	https://github.com/att/ast/issues/1079
	https://github.com/att/ast/commit/8e1e405e
	https://github.com/att/ast/issues/1088
That issue was unresolved when the ksh2020 branch was abandoned.

The safer and more conservative fix is simply forcing the subshell
to fork if we're in a non-forked command substitution and testing
'-t 1'. It is hard to imagine a situation where this would cause a
noticable performance hit.

Note that this fix does not affect ksh93-specific "shared"
non-subshell ${ command substitutions; } which are executed in the
main shell environment, so that variables survive, etcetera.
'test -t 1' continues to wrongly return true there, but command
substitutions of that form cannot be forked because that would
defeat their purpose.

src/cmd/ksh93/bltins/test.c:
- Fix 'test -t 1', '[ -t 1 ]' and '[[ -t 1 ]]' by forking the
  current subshell if it is a virtual/non-forked subshell
  (shp->subshell), and a command substitution (shp->comsub), but
  NOT a "shared" ${ command substitution; } (!shp->subshare).

src/cmd/ksh93/tests/bracket.sh:
- Add two regression tests for this issue, which were adapted from
  the Vashist/Rader ksh2020 branch.

NEWS, src/cmd/ksh93/include/version.h:
- Update.

(cherry picked from commit b8ef05e457ead65b83417699b8dd8632f855e2fa)
2020-06-12 01:45:13 +02:00

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This documents significant changes in the 93u+m branch of AT&T ksh93.
For full details, see the git log at:
https://github.com/modernish/ksh
Any uppercase BUG_* names are modernish shell bug IDs.
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 and report
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