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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 (cherry picked from commit 29afc16c47824fc79ed092ae7704c525b1db6a0a)
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This documents significant changes in the 93u+m branch of AT&T ksh93.
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For full details, see the git log at:
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https://github.com/modernish/ksh
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Any uppercase BUG_* names are modernish shell bug IDs.
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2020-05-13:
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- Fix BUG_CASELIT: an undocumented 'case' pattern matching misbehaviour that
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goes back to the original Bourne shell, but wasn't discovered until 2018.
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If a pattern doesn't match as a pattern, it was tried again as a literal
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string. This broke common validation use cases, e.g.:
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n='[0-9]'
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case $n in
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( [0-9] ) echo "$n is a number" ;;
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esac
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would output "[0-9] is a number" as the literal string fallback matches the
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pattern. As this misbehaviour was never documented anywhere (not for Bourne,
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ksh88, or ksh93), and it was never replicated in other shells (not even in
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ksh88 clones pdksh and mksh), it is unlikely any scripts rely on it.
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Of course, a literal string fallback, should it be needed, is trivial to
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implement correctly without this breakage:
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case $n in
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( [0-9] | "[0-9]") echo "$n is a number or the number pattern" ;;
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esac
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Ref.: https://github.com/att/ast/issues/476
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- Fix BUG_REDIRIO: ksh used to redirect standard output by default when no
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file descriptor was specified with the rarely used '<>' reading/writing
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redirection operator. It now redirects standard input by default, as POSIX
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specifies and as all other POSIX shells do. To redirect standard output
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for reading and writing, you now need '1<>'.
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Ref.: https://github.com/att/ast/issues/75
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http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_07_07
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