Changelog for mksh-59c-lp156.81.1.x86_64.rpm :

* Tue Dec 27 2022 Ludwig Nussel - Replace transitional %usrmerged macro with regular version check (boo#1206798)
* Tue Feb 09 2021 Jan Engelhardt - Modernize/remove old RPM constructs.- Replace wrong `uname -m` (source arch); CFLAGS are a matter dependent on the target arch.
* Wed Jan 27 2021 Ludwig Nussel - prepare usrmerge (boo#1029961)- update-alternatives call must be in postun- remove obsolete pre-sle12 code
* Thu Nov 12 2020 Dirk Mueller - update to 59c:
* [tg] Update character widths (Jamo bugfix)
* [spellintian] Fixes
* [Jonathan Perkin] Don’t use “test -e” in Build.sh
* [Jonathan Perkin] Mac OSX-specific: ensure ulimit -m is present even if it is an alias of ulimit -v (10.4+), for compatibility
* [Finn Thain, Stanley J. Johnson] Port to A/UX
* [tg] Add older ulimit(2) support, if setrlimit(2) is missing
* [tg] More EBCDIC-safeness (slightly…)
* [PerlAcademy] Allow all tests to pass with very old Perl 5
* [tg] Fix test.sh’s output of tested/expected shell version
* [Stanley J. Johnson] Let A/UX default CC to gcc
* [tg] Drop “is being ported” warning from A/UX and OS/2, they work
* [tg] Include only if MKSH_NOPWNAM is not defined
* [tg] “command -v” must print absolute pathnames, even if $PATH contains relative pathnames under which the command in question was found (orbea)
* [komh] Fix absolute pathnames relative to / on nōn-OS/2, too
* [tg] Fix some more corner cases related to pathname normalisation
* [tg] FAQ: “${AATT?}: bad substitution” documentation
* [tg] Fix some constructs pointed out by https://www.deepcode.ai/
* [tg] Clean, refactor, optimise some code
* [tg] Allow ^Xe on empty command line; quote editor argument properly
* [tg] FAQ: an IRC user suggests ^Xe for ad-hōc scripts and multiline
* [tg] Eliminate many unnecessary calls to (re‑)allocate memory
* [tg] Correct order during tree-printing of heredocs (LP#1783355)
* [tg] Drop some possibly unreached and probably broken code
* [tg] Increase FAQ2HTML.sh compatibility with pre-POSIX shells
* [tg] Demote some (unlikely called) output code to !MKSH_SMALL
* Thu Aug 20 2020 Dirk Mueller - update to 59b:
* [tg] Handle other tmux $TERM types, pointed out by multi via IRC
* [tg] Fix typo in FAQ
* [tg] y=\'a\\
*b\'; [[ $x = $y ]] regression (Martijn Dekker) fix
* [l0kod] Defuse CLIP OS O_MAYEXEC support (cf. LWN)
* [tg] Make set +o output a command to restore the currently set and (new!) cleared options, keep a reset state per session (experimental)
* [tg] Correct documentation and code regarding to argv[0] parsing: first ‘-’ for login shells, then ‘r’ case-insensitively for restricted shell, then “sh”
*, again case-insensitively, for BINSH_
* modes; add tests
* [tg] On OS/2, allow case-insensitive name for direct builtin call
* [tg] Always skip startup files if direct builtin call
* [tg] Avoid some sometimes-redundant startup codepaths
* [tg] Repair out-of-tree builds (noticed by rsc)
* [tg] Work around a glibc on Hurd issue in testsuite
* [komh] OS/2 filesystem mtime granularity is two seconds (as in FAT)
* [tg] Replace while with goto: Coverity was confused
* [tg] Fix invocation of some builtins when external utility absent
* [komh] Improve automatic executable suffix for test builtin
* [tg] Style code, refactor, clean up, optimise
* [tg] Use cached egid in test builtin
* [tg] Make bind builtin output reentry-safe; safety fixes
* [tg] If basename(argv[0]) after leading dash removal begins with an ‘r’ enable restricted shell flag; reported by pmjdebruijn via IRC
* [tg] Fix code example in manpage for how tab completion escapes
* [tg] Match full extglob pattern RHS of [[ string comparison like ksh93
* [tg] Implement which with -a in dot.mkshrc
* [tg] Remove global builtin (use typeset -g)
* [tg] alias, command, whence: Print alias names quoted
* [tg] Implement a new quote-region (Esc+Q) editing command
* [tg] Document all built-in aliases (requested by msiism via IRC) and those aliases and functions shipped in dot.mkshrc; completely overhaul builtin and reserved word documentation, for consistency
* [tg] The manual page now features properly spaced em dashes ☻
* [tg] Document that test x = y doesn’t extglob, only [[ x = y ]] does
* [lintian] hyphen-used-as-minus-sign (on jessie, not later, ‽‽‽)
* [tg] Fix system info gcc dump{machine,version} shell escaping level
* [tg] Document KSH_VERSIONNAME_VENDOR_EXT in Build.sh
* [tg] Be more explicit about the LTO bug exposed by check.t
* [Todd C. Miller] Add -x (file locks) and AIX-specific -r ulimits
* [tg] Handle Midipix as test environment and fix some warnings
* [tg] Fix some Build.sh issues as Mirtoconf is now used by MirCPIO and MagicPoint
* [komh] Improve CRLF to LF conversion
* [komh] Ensure ECHO mode is enabled at startup so read has local echo
* [komh] Let check.pl retain the PERLIO env variable
* [komh] Unbreak nounset-1 test on systems with drive letters
* [komh, tg] Make ulimit-3 test work without |& (that is, incomplete ports, i.e. those with -DMKSH_NOPROSPECTOFWORK)
* [tg] Disable xxx-stat-1 test for now, fails when run as root
* [tg] Drop Build.sh flags -c combine, -c lto
* [Martijn Dekker] Exit 126 on execve(2) failure, not 1 (e.g. E2BIG)
* [tg] Behave set and export/readonly-on-read-only-variables when run with command and command dot, bugreports by Martijn Dekker
* [tg] dot.mkshrc: simplify; enhance (un)setting locale example
* [tg, selk] Catch build errors earlier
* [tg] Add -fno-lto (if GCC is detected) to CFLAGS and LDFLAGS
* [tg] Limit HISTSIZE to 65535, as long pre-announced
* [tg] Unbreak testsuite selftest-tty-absent for lksh
* [tg] Begin work on support for neatcc (needs neatcc to evolve first)
* [tg] Fix possibly not enough aligned access in struct job
* [tg] Support going full setugid by running “set -p” once interactive
* [tg] Document another (arcane, almost nowhere needed) definition
* [tg] Improve code legibility and testsuite reliability and maintenance
* [tg] Speed up trivial += cases (LP#1855167)
* [tg] Some further code and memory optimisation and test coverage
* [tg] Document that += is always string append (LP#1857702)
* [tg] Fix “set -e appears active within eval but isn’t” reported by Martijn Dekker and another bug related to using set ±e inside eval
* [tg] Handle parameter assignment in front of invocations of POSIX-style functions like ksh-style ones and external utilities; cf. Debian #935115
* [tg] Fix bad memory access for invalid syntax (LP#1857828, LP#1857826)
* [Brian Callahan] Update MALLOC_OPTIONS-using testcase for newer OpenBSD
* [tg] Support lacc as compiler (just detecting, no change), thanks Brian
* [tg] Share __IDSTRING with jupp
* [tg] Update string comparison/pattern documentation
* [tg, veedeeh] Document vi command line editing mode state better
* [tg] Add FAQ2HTML.sh to convert mksh.faq to local valid XHTML+CSS
* [tg] Correct backslash expansion documentation; caveat re. 16-bit UCS
* [tg] Fix extra empty field on IFS-NWS trim expansion (Martijn Dekker)
* [tg] Improve code performance, quality, robustness and correctness
* [tg] Allow ${x:n} where n is an identifier (veedeeh)
* [tg] Permit ‘+’ in alias names, but not leading (Aleksey Cheusov)
* [tg] Fix here strings for $AATT (LP#1857195), reported by jvdh
* [multiplexd] Add vi mode PgDn, similar to PgUp doing history search
* [tg] Build.sh fixup unreliable test -n/-z
* [multiplexd] Correct documentation of vi mode AATTc
* [tg] Update to UCD 13.0.0
* [tg] Use nanoseconds in test -nt / -ot (LP#1855325)
* Thu Sep 05 2019 mAATTmirbsd.org- Disable LTO, GCC’s is too buggy and generates wrong code (note LTO was disabled earlier already, but apparently, it’s now enabled distro-wide which we need to counteract)
* Tue Apr 09 2019 t.glaserAATTtarent.de- KSH_VERSIONNAME_VENDOR_EXT needs to begin with a space and plus
* Tue Apr 09 2019 t.glaserAATTtarent.de- Fix CPPFLAGS double shell escape of space character
* Tue Apr 09 2019 t.glaserAATTtarent.de- KSH_VERSIONNAME_VENDOR_EXT needs to begin with a space
* Tue Apr 09 2019 t.glaserAATTtarent.de- Ensure the extra CPPFLAGS are actually used, oops…
* Tue Apr 09 2019 t.glaserAATTtarent.de- Remove virt-what from build dependencies, it just fails or, worse, makes the package unresolvable; also from lewellyn- Ensure KSH_VERSIONNAME_VENDOR_EXT is always set to something, because the patch deviating from upstream is always applied
* Tue Apr 09 2019 t.glaserAATTtarent.de- Update to version R57 (reminded by lewellyn) R57 rolls up bugfixes, with few hard changes: [gecko2] Update operating environment reporting for the Macintosh [Martijn Dekker] make ${foo#\'bar\'} in here document behave like ksh93 [Martijn Dekker] quote empty strings for re-entry into shell [tg, G.raud Meyer] Improve documentation, especially for tty states [tg] Protect against entering line editing with bad saved tty state [tg] Fix set -o allexport for arrays (which we apparently do) [tg] Handle lseek(2) returning -1 as pointed out by Coverity Scan [tg] Fix left-padding UTF-8 strings [tg, G.raud Meyer] Fix using the “-m” flag on the command line [tg] Update to UCD 11.0.0 [multiplexd] Fix a segfault using ^W during search in Vi mode [tg] Fix an error message; add a test for controlling tty [tg] Permit unsetting LINES and COLUMNS, for those who need it [tg] Fix manpage bug (RedHat BZ#1612173) [tg] Minor spelling cleanup [tg] Unbreak high-bit7 (nōn-ASCII) heredoc separators (LP#1779179) [tg] Allow dumping high-bit7-char-containing strings in DEBUG mode [tg] Add some testcases for behaviour questions popped up in IRC [tg] Trick a GCC warning, to make up for it ignoring lint(1) hints [tg] Add O_MAYEXEC support for CLIP OS [tg] Make dup-to-self with ksh-style fd≥3 closing work; catern via IRC [tg] Add compat glue for newer GNU groff mdoc to the manpages [tg] Trigger EXIT trap after single-command subshells (Debian #910276) [tg] Document set -eo pipefail caveat (LP#1804504) [tg] Fix MKSH_EARLY_LOCALE_TRACKING warning [tg] Document that, when your Unix is broken, GIGO applies (LP#1817959) [tg] Improve error message for inaccessible executables (LP#1817789)- Switch from patching check.t, sh.h and Build.sh to using KSH_VERSIONNAME_VENDOR_EXT and appending to CPPFLAGS beforehand- Remove qemu/ppc patches that are upstreamed/no longer necessary- Drop LTO support which was already always disabled- Handle newer GCC note output during configure stage
* Tue Apr 17 2018 wernerAATTsuse.de- Remove patch mksh-locale.patch and use upstream compile flags MKSH_EARLY_LOCALE_TRACKING as replacement
* Tue Apr 17 2018 wernerAATTsuse.de- Update to version R56c R56c is a bugfix-only release everyone must upgrade to: [komh] Remove redundant OS/2-specific code, clean up others [komh, tg] Fix drive-qualified (absolute and relative) DOS-style path support in realpath functionality, partially other places [tg] Don’t substitute ${ENV:-~/.mkshrc} result again [tg] Improve OS/2 $PATH (et al.) handling, drive-relative paths [tg] Add MKSH_ENVDIR compile-time option for Jehanne and Plan 9 [tg] Limit nesting when parsing malformed code (Debian #878947) [tg] Update wcwidth data with bugfixed script (still Unicode 10; resulting values are identical to glibc git master for extant chars) [Dr. Werner Fink] Raise some time limits in the testsuite [Shamar] Add support for the Jehanne operating system [komh] Set stdin to text mode before executing child processes on OS/2 [komh] Pass arguments via a resonse file if executing a child fails [Dr. Werner Fink] Early locale tracking as a compile-time option [tg] Fix regressions introduced with new fast character classes R56b is a bugfix-only release everyone should upgrade to: [tg] Reference the FAQ webpage [panpo, Riviera] Fix documentation bug wrt. Esc+Ctrl-L [tg, Larry Hynes] Fix “0” movement in vi mode [tg] Replace broken libcs’ offsetof macro with MirBSD’s R56 is a bugfix release with some experimental fixes: [tg, Seb] Do not apply alias name restrictions to hash/tilde tracking [tg] Restore ‘.’, ‘:’ and ‘[’ in alias names (“[[” is still forbidden) [tg] Fix accidentally defanged $PATHSEP test [tg] On ^C (INTR and QUIT edchars), shove edit line into history [iSKUNK, tg] Begin porting to z/OS using EBCDIC encoding, incomplete [tg] Redo fast character classes code, adding POSIX and other helpers [tg] bind parses backslash-escaped ‘^’ (and ‘\\’) as escaped [tg] Building with -DMKSH_ASSUME_UTF8=0 no longer causes a known failure in the testsuite [tg] New test.sh option -U to pass a UTF-8 locale to use in the tests [tg] re_format(7) BSD: [[ $x =
*[[:\\<:]]foo[[:\\>:]]
* ]] [tg, iSKUNK] Use Config in check.pl only if it exists [tg] New matching code for bracket expressions, full POSIX (8bit) [komh] Exclude FAT/HPFS/NTFS-unsafe tests on OS/2 (and Cygwin/MSYS) [tg] Update to Unicode 10.0.0 [tg, selk] Make readonly idempotent [tg, multiplexd] When truncating the persistent history, do not change the underlying file, do all operations on the locked one; do not stop using the history at all if it has been truncated [tg, Jörg] Turn off UTF-8 mode upon turning on POSIX mode [Martijn Dekker, Geoff Clare, many on the Austin list, tg] In POSIX mode, make the exec builtin force a $PATH search plus execve [tg] Fix GCC 7, Coverity Scan warnings [tg, Michal Hlavinka] Track background process PIDs even interactive [tg] Always expose mksh’s hexdump shell function; speed it up by working on the input in chunks; use character classes to make it EBCDIC safe [tg] Revamp dot.mkshrc default editor selection mechanism R55 is mostly a feature release with summary bugfixes: [komh] Fix OS/2 search_access() and UNC path logic [tg] Undocument printf(1) to avoid user confusion [Jean Delvare, tg] Fix printf builtin -R option [tg] Make ${varAATTx}, unknown x, fail (thanks izabera) [tg] ${var=x} must evaluate x in scalar context (10x Martijn Dekker) [tg] Fixup relation between lksh and mksh, reduce delta [tg] Improve manpage display; add OS/2 $PATH FAQ [Jean Delvare] Fix bugs in manpage [tg] Review tilde expansion, removing “odd use of KEEPASN” and introduce POSIX “declaration utility” concept; wait isn’t one [tg] Add \\builtin utility, declaration utility forwarder [tg] Make $\'\\xz\' expand to xz, not \\0 [tg] Use fixed string pooling (requires the above change in host mksh) [tg] POSIX declaration commands can have varassign and redirections [Martijn Dekker] Add typeset -g, replacing homegrown “global” [Harvey-OS] Disable NOPROSPECTOFWORK, APEX is reportedly fixed now [tg] Display ulimit -a output with flags; improve Haiku [tg] Drop old let] hack, use \\builtin internally [tg] Fix padding in Lb64encode in dot.mkshrc [tg] Move FAQ content to a separate, new FAQ section in the manpage [tg] Add new standard variable PATHSEP (‘:’, ‘;’ on OS/2) [Martijn Dekker] Fix LINENO in eval and alias [komh] Fix “\\builtin” on OS/2 [tg] Improve (internal) character classes code for speed [tg] Fix: the underscore is no drive letter [tg] No longer hard-disable persistent history support in lksh [tg] Introduce build flag -T for enabling “textmode” on OS/2 (supporting CR+LF line endings, but incompatible with mksh proper) [tg] Merge mksh-os2 [tg] Permit changing $OS2_SHELL during a running shell [tg] Fix multibyte handling in ^R (Emacs search-history) [tg] Allow “typeset -p arrname[2]” to work [tg] Make some error messages more consistent [tg, komh] Disable UTF-8 detection code for OS/2 as unrealistic [tg, sdaoden] Limit alias name chars to POSIX plus non-leading ‘-’ [tg, Martijn Dekker] Expand aliases at COMSUB parse time [tg] Make “typeset -f” output alias-resistent [tg, Martijn Dekker] Permit “eval break” and “eval continue” [tg] Make -masm=intel safe on i386[tg] Disambiguate $((…)) vs. $((…)…) in “typeset -f” output [Jean Delvare] Clarify the effect of exit and return in a subshell [tg] Simplify compile-time asserts and make them actually compile-time [tg] Fix ^O in Emacs mode if the line was modified (LP#1675842) [tg] Address Coverity Scan… stuff… now that it builds again [Martijn Dekker, tg] Add test -v [tg] Document set -o posix/sh completely
* Fri Dec 15 2017 wernerAATTsuse.de- Add patch mksh-locale.patch to enable the mksh to set internal lcoale settings like utf support during runtime
* Wed Nov 22 2017 wernerAATTsuse.de- Do not change Build.sh for not using hard coded list of signals and errors but the cpp macros for this (requested by upstream)
* Tue Nov 14 2017 wernerAATTsuse.de- The AT&T ksh is still part of openSUSE but on SLES only mksh should be used (bsc#1067195)
* Thu Feb 23 2017 wernerAATTsuse.de- Avoid deprecated API for errors and signals- Be sure to use a clean history file
* Tue Feb 21 2017 wernerAATTsuse.de- Make errors ini test suite fatal- Avoid -flto as this breaks even with gcc 6.3.1 20170202
* Tue Feb 14 2017 wernerAATTsuse.de- Use screen to provide a tty for test suite scripts
* Tue Feb 14 2017 wernerAATTsuse.de- Update to version R54 R54 is a bugfix release with moderate new features: [tg] Simplify and improve code and manual page [tg] Try GCC 5’s new -malign-data=abi [tg] Allow interrupting builtin cat even on fast devices (LP#1616692) [tg] Update to Unicode 9.0.0 [Andreas Buschka] Correct English spelling [tg] Handle set -e-related error propagation in || and && constructs correctly [tg] Initialise memory for RNG even when not targeting Valgrind [tg] Shrink binary size [Brian Callahan] Improve support for the contemporary pcc compiler [tg] Fix side effects with lazy evaluation; spotted by ormaaj [tg] New flags -c (columnise), -l, -N for the print builtin [Larry Hynes] Fix English, spelling mistakes, typos in the manpage [tg, ormaah] Return 128+SIGALRM if read -t times out, like GNU bash [Martijn Dekker] Install both manpages from Build.sh [Martijn Dekker] Document case changes are ASCII-only [Ronald G. Minnich, Elbing Miss, Álvaro Jurado, tg] Begin porting to Harvey-OS and APEX (similar to Plan 9 and APE) [KO Myung-Hun] More infrastructure for the OS/2 (EMX, KLIBC) port R53a is a snapshot/feature release: [lintian] Fix spelling [tg] Unbreak multi-line command history broken by history flush [tg] Fix redefining POSIX functions that were Korn functions before [tg, TNF] Fix bounds checks in Vi editing mode [tg] Handle combining characters at end of string or output correctly [tg] Fix ${!#} ${!?} ${!-} (POSIX, prompted by izabera) [tg] Fix shf.c-internal buffer overread on printing digits [J�rg] Fix a typo in the testsuite [arekm] Increase default edit line size (unless MKSH_SMALL) [tg] Improve description of Emacs mode keybindings, especially ^U [tg, arekm, jilles] Abort read builtin in case of read(2) errors [tg, izabera, carstenh] Fix most of the ambiguous corner cases related to ${[pfx]var[op[word]]} (${AATT:-1} still unsupported) [carstenh] Contribute some more testsuite coverage [tg] WDS_TPUTS now emits QCHAR newline reentrant-safe [tg] Fix var=<< implementation (LP#1380389) [tg, FreeBSD] Make XSI test(1) extensions behave as if they were POSIX [tg, izabera] Add $(<<>> as ROL and ROR operators with their new ^< and ^> spelling as per this proposal [tg, slagtc] Clear-to-EOL under tmux to work around its anti-feature [tg, p120ph37] Remove support for using file descriptors with more than a single digit, in preparation for named file descriptors [tg] Correct, but simplify (at the potential cost of more tty I/O than strictly necessary, though never redundant and (probably) not more than before when it was miscalculated), line clearing and redrawing [slagtc, tg] Implement new evaluate-region editing command Esc+Ctrl-E [tg] Prefer external rename utility over the recovery builtin [tg] Remove redundant full-line redraws [tg, Natureshadow] Fix errorlevel of ‘.’ (“dot” special builtin) when the sourced script does not run any commands, for POSIX compliance [tg] Refactor op tokens and edchars to shave off some more bytes [tg] Fix some bugs in the manpage and some occasional/minor code bugs [tg, Brian Callahan] Mark tests requiring new perl as !need-pass [tg, slagtc] Add $KSH_MATCH and, to make it usable, ${fooAATT/bar/baz} [tg, Score_Under] Fix bogus patch from OpenBSD: only NULL the global source in unwind when actually reclaiming its Area [izabera] Mention in the manpage that integer bases go up to 36 [Natureshadow] Fix /= operator broken during refactoring R52c is a bugfix-only release: [tg] Shave 200 bytes off .text by revisiting string pooling [tg, J�rg] Fix manpage for ditroff on Schillix [tg, wbx] Use sed 1q instead of unportable head(1) [tg] Implement underrun debugging tool for area-based memory allocator [tg] Fix history underrun when first interactive command is entered [tg, bef0rd] Do not misinterpret “${0/}” as “${0//”, fixes segfault [tg, Stéphane Chazelas] Fix display problems with special parameters [tg, Stéphane Chazelas] Catch attempt to trim $
* and $AATT with ?, fixes segfault (Todd Miller did this in 2004 for ${x[
*]} already, so just sync) [Martijn Dekker] Fix “command -p” with -Vv to behave as POSIX requires [tg, jilles, Oleg Bulatov] Fix recusive parser with active heredocs [tg] Flush even syntax-failing or interrupted commands to history [tg, fmunozs] Fix invalid memory access for “\'\\0\'” in arithmetics [tg] Explicitly reserve SIGEXIT and SIGERR for ksh [tg, izabera] Catch missing here documents at EOF even under “set -n” [kre, tg] Document Austin#1015 handling (not considered a violation) [tg, fmunozs] Fix buffer overread for empty nameref targets [tg] Fix warnings pointed out by latest Debian gcc-snapshot [tg, Martijn Dekker] Document upcoming set +o changes [Martijn Dekker] Expand testsuite for command/whence R52b is a strongly recommended bugfix-only release: [tg] Recognise ksh93 compiled scripts and LZIP compressed files as binary (i.e. to not run as mksh plaintext script) [tg] Document that we will implement locale tracking later [tg] Add EEXIST to failback strerror(3) [jilles] Make set -C; :>foo race-free [tg] Don’t use unset in portable build script [tg] Plug warning on GNU/kFreeBSD, GNU/Hurd [tg] Document read -a resets the integer base [J�rg] Fix manpage: time is not a builtin but a reserved word [J�rg, tg] Make exit (and return) eat -1 [tg] parse “$( (( … ) … ) … )” correctly (LP#1532621), Jan Palus [tg] reduce memory footprint by free(3)ing more aggressively [tg] fix buffer overrun (LP#1533394), bugreport by izabera [tg] correctly handle nested ADELIM parsing (LP#1453827), Teckids [tg] permit “read -A/-a arr[idx]” as long as only one element is read; fix corruption of array indicēs with this construct (LP#1533396), izabera [tg] Sanitise OS-provided signal number in even more places [tg] As requested by J�rg, be clear manpage advice is for mksh [tg] Revert (as it was a regression) POSIX bugfix from R52/2005 related to accent gravis-style command substitution until POSIX decides either way [tg] Handle export et al. after command (Austin#351) [tg] Catch EPIPE in built-in cat and return as SIGPIPE (LP#1532621) [tg] Fix errno in print/echo builtin; optimise that and unbksl [tg] Update documentation, point out POSIX violation (Austin#1015) R52 is a strongly recommended bugfix release: [_0bitcount] Move moving external link from mksh(1) to the #ksh channel homepage linked therein [tg] Make setenv “set -u”-safe and fix when invoked with no args [tg] Make “typeset -f” output reentrant if name is a reserved word [oksh] Zero-pad seconds in “time” output to align columns [tg] Check signals and errorlevels from OS to be within bounds [komh, tg] Quote and document ‘;’ as PATH separator in some places [oksh, tg] Simplify code to call afree() even if arg is NULL [tg] Fix tree-printing and reentrancy of multiple here documents [tg] Work around LP#1030581 by permitting exactly one space after [tg, oksh] Code quality work, cleanups [tg] New code for here documents/strings with several bugfixes [tg] Stop using issetugid(2) for ±p checks, wrong tool for the job [tg] Reintroduce some -o posix changes lost in 2005, plus fixes [tg] Make “source” into a built-in command [tg] Drop “stop” alias, lksh(1) functionality to auto-unalias [tg] Fix \\u0000 ignored in $\'…\' and print [tg] Improve portability of Build.sh [Jilles Tjoelker] Improve portability of testsuite [tg] Fix tilde expansion for some substitutions (izabera, Chet, Geoff) [tg] Improve reparsing of ((…) |…) as ( (…) |…) [Martijn Dekker] Fix test(1) not returning evaluation errors [tg] Fix ${
*:+x} constructs (carstenh) [tg] Make (( … )) into a compound command (ormaaj) [tg] Repair a few parameter substitution expansion mistakes R51 is a strongly recommended feature release: [tg] OpenBSD sync: handle integer base out of band like ksh93 does [tg] Protect standard code (predefined aliases, internal code, aliases and functions in dot.mkshrc) from being overridden by aliases and, in some cases, shell functions (i.e. permit overriding but ignore it) [tg] Implement GNU bash’s enable for dot.mkshrc using magic aliases to redirect the builtins to external utilities; this differs from GNU bash in that enable takes precedence over functions [tg] Move unaliasing an identifier when defining a POSIX-style function with the same name into lksh, as compatibility kludge [tg] Korn shell style functions now have locally scoped shell options [tg, iSKUNK] Change some ASCII-isms to be EBCDIC-aware or pluggable [tg, Ypnose] Mention lksh build instructions on manpage and website [tg] Overhaul signal handling; support new POSIX NSIG_MAX, add sysconf(_SC_NSIG) as a later TODO item [tg] Fix signal bounds (1 ≤ signum < NSIG) [tg] Improve manual pages, especially wrt. standards compliance [tg, iSKUNK] Initial EBCDIC work for dot.mkshrc [tg, iSKUNK] Add list of z/OS signals to Build.sh [tg] Work around the sh(1) backslash-newline problem by moving the code triggering it out of
*.opt and into the consumers [colona] Bind another well-known ANSI Del key in the Emacs mode [tg] Fix ${foo/
*/x} pattern checks, spotted by izabera [carstenh] Fix error output of cd function in dot.mkshrc [tg] read partial returns in -N and timeout cases [tg] Fix $LINENO inside PS1; spotted by carstenh [tg] Ensure correct padding of at least 2 spaces in print_columns [tg] Note issues with nested complex parameter expansions and follow-up bugfixes to expect [OpenBSD] Some language fixes in documentation; comments [tg] Reimplement multi-line command history (Debian #783978) + fixes [Martijn Dekker] Fix command -v for “shell reserved words” [tg] In dot.mkshrc make use of latest feature: local options [tg] Fix \"\"$AATT to emit a word [tg] Change cat(1) hack to look first and not ignore builtin [KO Myung-Hun] Begin porting mksh to OS/2 [komh, tg] Some generic minor bugfixes from OS/2 porting [tg] Document mknod(8) isn’t normally part of mksh(1) [tg] Quote arguments to : in build/test scripts as well [tg] Add cat(1) hack for printf(1)-as-builtin: always prefer external [tg] Explicitly use binary mode for any and all file I/O in stock mksh [Ilya Zakharevich] Use termio, not termios(4), on OS/2 [tg] Set edchars to sane BSD defaults if any are NUL [tg] Implement support for PC scancodes in Vi and Emacs editing mode [komh] OS/2 uses ‘;’ as PATH separator plus support drive letters
* Mon Apr 20 2015 gberAATTopensuse.org- mention vendor modifications in manpage as requested by upstream
* Mon Apr 20 2015 gberAATTopensuse.org- update to version 50f - [tg] OpenBSD sync: handle integer base out of band like ksh93 does - [tg] Protect standard code (predefined aliases, internal code, aliases and functions in dot.mkshrc) from being overridden by aliases and, in some cases, shell functions (i.e. permit overriding but ignore it) - [tg] Implement GNU bash’s enable for dot.mkshrc using magic aliases to redirect the builtins to external utilities; this differs from GNU bash in that enable takes precedence over functions - [tg] Move unaliasing an identifier when defining a POSIX-style function with the same name into lksh, as compatibility kludge - [tg] Korn shell style functions now have locally scoped shell options - [tg] Add a patch marker for vendor patch versioning to mksh.1 - [tg] SECURITY: make unset HISTFILE actually work - [tg] Document some more issues with the current history code - [tg] Remove some unused code - [tg] RCSID-only sync with OpenBSD, for bogus and irrelevant changes - [tg] Also disable field splitting for alias \'local=\\typeset\' - [tg] Fix read -n-1 to not be identical to read -N-1 - [tg] Several fixes and improvements to lksh(1) and mksh(1) manpages - [tg] More code (int → size_t), comment and testsuite fixes - [tg] Make dot.mkshrc more robust (LP#1441853) - [tg] Fix issues with IFS=\'\\\' read, found by edualbus - [enh, tg] Fix integer overflows related to file descriptor parsing, found by Pawel Wylecial (LP#1440685); reduce memory usage for I/O redirs - [tg] Document in the manpage how to set ±U according to the current locale settings via LANG/LC_
* parameters (cf. Debian [#782225]) - [igli, tg] Some code cleanup and restructuring - [tg, oksh] Handle number parsing and storing more carefully
* Sun Mar 01 2015 gberAATTopensuse.org- update to version 50e - [tg] Add more tests detailing behaviour difference from GNU bash - [tg] Introduce a memory leak for x=<< fixing use of freed memory instead, bug tracked as LP#1380389 still live - [tg] Add x+=<< parallel to x=<< - [tg, ormaaj, jilles] POSIX “command” loses builtin special-ness - [tg] Fix LP#1381965 and LP#1381993 (more field splitting) - [jilles] Update location of FreeBSD testsuite for test(1) - [Martin Natano] Remove dead NULL elements from Emacs keybindings - [tg, Stéphane Chazelas, Geoff Clare] Change several testcases for $
*/$AATT expansion with/without quotes to expected-fail, with even more to come ☹ - [tg] Fix miscalculating required memory for encoding the double-quoted parts of a here document or here string delimiter, leading to a buffer overflow; discovered by zacts from IRC - [RT] Rename a function conflicting with a MacRelix system header - [tg] Use size_t (and ssize_t) consistently, stop using ptrdiff_t; fixes some arithmetics and S/390 bugs - [tg] Remove old workarounds for Clang 3.2 scan-build - [tg] Remove all Clang/Coverity assertions, making room for new checks - [tg] Fix NSIG generation on Debian sid gcc-snapshot - [tg] Make a testcase not fail in a corner case - [tg] Fix issues detected by GCC’s new sanitisers: data type of a value to be shifted constantly must be unsigned (what not, in C…); shebang check array accesses are always unsigned char - [tg] Be even more explicit wrt. POSIX in the manpage - [tg] Fix shebang / file magic decoding - [tg] More int → bool conversion - [tg] Let Build.sh be run by GNU bash 1.12.1 (Slackware 1.01) - [Stéphane Chazelas, tg] Fix here string parsing issue - [tg] Point out more future changes in the manpage - [tg] Call setgid(2), setegid(2), setuid(2) before seteuid(2) - [tg] Fix spurious empty line after ENOENT “whence -v”, found by Ypnose - [tg] Optimise dot.mkshrc and modernise it a bit - [tg] Use MAXPATHLEN from for PATH_MAX fallback - [tg] Some code cleanup and warnings fixes - [tg] Add options -a argv0 and -c to exec - [jsg] Prevent use-after-free when hitting multiple errors unwinding - [tg] Fix use of $
* and $AATT in scalar context: within [[ … ]] and after case (spotted by Stéphane Chazelas) and in here documents (spotted by tgAATT); fix here document expansion - [tg] Unbreak when $AATT shares double quotes with others - [tg] Fix set -x in PS4 expansion infinite loop