Changelog for mksh-59c-79.1.i586.rpm :

* Tue Dec 27 2022 lnusselAATTsuse.com- Replace transitional %usrmerged macro with regular version check (boo#1206798)
* Tue Feb 09 2021 jengelhAATTinai.de- Modernize/remove old RPM constructs.- Replace wrong `uname -m` (source arch); CFLAGS are a matter dependent on the target arch.
* Wed Jan 27 2021 lnusselAATTsuse.de- prepare usrmerge (boo#1029961)- update-alternatives call must be in postun- remove obsolete pre-sle12 code
* Thu Nov 12 2020 dmuellerAATTsuse.com- 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 dmuellerAATTsuse.com- 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
* Tue Oct 07 2014 tgAATTmirbsd.org- update to regression bugfix version 50d - [Goodbox] Fix NULL pointer dereference on “unset x; nameref x” - [tg] Fix severe regression in field splitting (LP#1378208) - [tg] Add a warning about not using tainted user input (including from the environment) in arithmetics, until Stéphane writes it up nicely- refresh vendor patch
* Fri Oct 03 2014 tgAATTmirbsd.org- update to SECURITY version 50c - [tg] Know more rare signals when generating sys_signame[] replacement - [tg] OpenBSD sync (mostly RCSID only) - [tg] Document HISTSIZE limit; found by luigi_345 on IRC - [zacts] Fix link to Debian .mkshrc - [tg] Cease exporting $RANDOM (Debian #760857) - [tg] Fix C99 compatibility - [tg] Work around klibc bug causing a coredump (Debian #763842) - [tg] Use issetugid(2) as additional check if we are FPRIVILEGED - [tg] SECURITY: do not permit += from environment - [tg] Fix more field splitting bugs reported by Stephane Chazelas and mikeserv; document current status wrt. ambiguous ones as testcases too- use build log cleaner sed command from home:mirabile package- enable lksh build-time option to automatically run \"set -o posix\" when called as sh or -sh, like home:mirabile package did
* Thu Sep 04 2014 gberAATTopensuse.org- update to version 50b - [Ypnose] Fix operator description in the manpage - [tg] Change all mention of “eglibc” to “glibc”, it is merged back - [Colona] Fix rare infinite loop with invalid UTF-8 in the edit buffer - [tg] Make more clear when a shell is interactive in the manpage - [tg] Document that % is a symmetric remainder operation, and how to get a mathematical modulus from it, in the manpage - [tg, Christopher Ferris, Elliott Hughes] Make the cat(1) builtin also interruptible in the write loop, not just in the read loop, and avoid it getting SIGPIPE in the smores function in dot.mkshrc by terminating cat upon user quit - [tg] Make some comments match the code, after jaredy from obsd changed IFS split handling - [tg] Fix some IFS-related mistakes in the manual page - [tg] Document another issue as known-to-fail test IFS-subst-3 - [tg] Improve check.pl output in some cases - [tg, Jb_boin] Relax overzealous nameref RHS checks
* Thu Aug 21 2014 pthAATTsuse.de- We use update-alternatives so there is no need to obsolete ksh.- Do not differentiate between openSUSE and SLES and simply state that this is the SUSE version.
* Tue Aug 19 2014 pthAATTsuse.de- Test for suse_version 1315 as that is what SLE12 will be using.
* Sun Jun 29 2014 gberAATTopensuse.org- update to version 50 - [tg] Fix initial IFS whitespace not being ignored when expanding - [tg] MKSH_BINSHREDUCED no longer mistakenly enables brace expansion - [tg] Explain more clearly Vi input mode limitations in the manpage - [tg] Improve error reporting of the check.pl script (which needs a maintainer since I don’t speak any perl(1), really), for lewellyn - [tg] Use $TMPDIR in test.sh for scratch space - [tg, Polynomial-C] Check that the scratch space is not mounted noexec - [pekster, jilles, tg] Use termcap(5) names, not terminfo(5) names, in tput(1) examples, for improved portability (e.g. to MidnightBSD) - [tg] Avoid C99 Undefined Behaviour in mirtoconf LFS test (inspired by Debian #742780) - [tg] Fix ${!foo} for when foo is unset - [tg] Improve nameref error checking (LP#1277691) - [tg] Fix readonly bypass found by Bert Münnich - [Ryan Schmidt] Improved system reporting for Mac OS X - [nDuff] Explain better [[ extglob handling in the manpage - [tg] Remove arr=([index]=value) syntax due to regressions - [tg] IFS-split arithmetic expansions as per POSIX 201x - [OpenBSD] Add more detailed Authors section to manpage - [tg] Fix set ±p issue for good: drop privs unless requested - [tg] Improve signal handling and use a more canonical probing order - [tg] Fix return values $? and ${PIPESTATUS[
*]} interaction with set -o pipefail and COMSUBs - [enh] Detect ENOEXEC ELF files and use a less confusing error message - [tg] Update to Unicode 7.0.0 - [tg] Shut up valgrind in the $RANDOM code - [tg] Use -fstack-protector-strong in favour of - fstack-protector-all - [tg] Fix access-after-free crash spotted by Enjolras via IRC
* Sat Feb 08 2014 gberAATTopensuse.org- adjust update-alternative usage to packaging policy (see http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-packaging/2014-02/msg00024.html)
* Sun Jan 12 2014 gberAATTopensuse.org- update to version 49 - [tg] dot.mkshrc: fix two issues with the cd wrapper - [tg] Unbreak set +p (wider issue still to be addressed) - [Steffen Daode Nurpmeso] Use WCONTINUED with waitpid(2) - [millert] Add proper suspend builtin handling tty(4) and setpgrp(2) - [tg] Sanitise and slightly optimise control character handling - [tg] Add O_BINARY to all open(2) calls for OS/2 kLIBC support - [tg] Generate option strings for shell, set, ulimit at compile time - [Steffen Daode Nurpmeso] Drop ISTRIP termios(4) mode - [tg] Mention negative history numbers, octals in the manpage - [tg] Make check.pl work with Perl < 5.6.1 again - [tg] Detect getsid(2) and skip the oksh suspend builtin otherwise - [tg] Document that set -o noclobber is unsafe for tempfiles - [tg] Update to Unicode 6.3.0 - [RT] Restore some portability - [tg] Fix parsing positional argument variable names - [tg] Sprinkle a few __attribute__((__pure__)); fix warnings - [tg] Fix build on OSX: always use our wcwidth code; only use our strlcpy(3) code if the OE doesn’t provide one (prompted by jonthn on IRC) - [tg] Optimise sh -c to exec even in MKSH_SMALL - [tg] Use new BAFH for hashing
* Fri Oct 18 2013 gberAATTopensuse.org- replace pdksh in openSUSE >= 13.2, lksh provides backwards compatibility - create corresponding symlinks - use update-alternatives to allow for lksh as (/usr)/bins/ksh
* Tue Oct 08 2013 tgAATTmirbsd.org- fix spelling in mksh-vendor-mkshrc.patch- split off nōn-SuSE package into OBS home:mirabile/mksh
* Tue Oct 08 2013 gberAATTopensuse.org- fix typo in %postun
* Sun Oct 06 2013 gberAATTopensuse.org- apply compiler workarounds for >= 13.1
* Thu Oct 03 2013 gberAATTopensuse.org- make sure the patch is only applied on openSUSE/SLE- %post/%postun are not needed for releases after 13.1
* Sat Sep 28 2013 gberAATTopensuse.org- add mksh-vendor-mkshrc.patch which adds support for a vendor-supplied kshrc which is read by interactive shells before $ENV or $HOME/.mkshrc are processed
* Thu Sep 26 2013 gberAATTopensuse.org- Initial packaging for openSUSE