Changelog:
# ksh93
12-08-01 A bug that ignored interrupts for some builtins (e.g. cmdtst::grep)
that read from stdin has been fixed.
12-08-01 A bug that interpreted "cd .foo" as "cd foo" has been fixed.
12-07-30 Added automatic restart for EINTR for ioctl, tcgetattr, and tcsetattr.
12-07-23 A scoping error with namrefs to compound associative arrays has
been fixed.
12-07-20 A bug where builtin -d /path/foo deleted foo has been fixed.
12-07-18 A bug in which /dev/stdout did not work in command substitution on
some systems has been fixed.
12-07-17 A bug in which the restricted option set in a subshell prevented
some variables from getting restored when the subshell completed
has been fixed.
12-07-09 A bug in which the directory is not restored after a subshell changes
the name of the directory for subshells executed in the same process
has been fixed.
12-07-09 A bug in which file descriptors created with {n}< file were not being
closed has been fixed.
12-07-09 The 12-04-04 fix for cd .. was not correct causing cd /etc;cd .. to
remain in /etc. This has been fixed.
12-07-02 A bug in which builtin name did now work for builtins found in a
library added by builtin -f lib has been fixed.
12-07-02 A bug in the edit modes which <tab> after a directory did not refresh
the input line has been fixed.
12-07-02 A bug in which an exit status > 256 corresponding to a signal was
not returned by a function to indicate a signal exit has been fixed.
12-06-28 Fix ulimit -a to list (Kibytes) instead of (kbytes).
12-06-27 Fix unitialized data reference for <CR> as first char in --vi mode.
12-06-26 The formatting of printf "%q" for multibyte locales has changed to
output using \u[xxx] format for valid wide characters.
12-06-25 The size limit for read -N and read -n has been raised to INT_MAX.
12-06-22 A bug in which an exit trap set in a subshell might not be triggered
when the last command was a simple executable has been fixed.
12-06-22 A bug which could cause the shell to hang when a coprocess exits
while a command inside a command substitution is reading from it has
been fixed.
12-06-21 +ksh new accepts for commands of the form for i; <nl> do;...;done
12-06-19 Tab completion after a / when there is only one match not completes
with that match rather than generating a menu of matches.
12-06-19 A bug in which patterns containing {...} where not processed
correctly inside ${var/pattern/string} has been fixed.
12-06-15 Change the .paths plugin/builtin library variable name from
BUILTIN_LIB to PLUGIN_LIB to prevent new plugin_version() aware
-lcmd from causing older non-plugin_version() aware ksh to dump core.
12-06-14 builtin without argument no longer lists .sh.tilde as a built-in.
12-06-12 For assignments if the form x=(foo bar), foo is only check for an
alias if it is float, integer, compound, or nameref.
12-06-12 +The shell supports 64 bit i-nodes even for 32 bit binaries.
12-06-11 A bug wth >; redirection systems for which vfork() was the same a
fork() has been fixed.
12-06-11 A bug in path lookup that ignored buffer boundaries has been fixed.
12-06-08 typeset -a var and typeset -A var, first unset var when var is
a compound variable.
12-06-08 A bug in which running shcomp on a program containg namespace
could core dump has been fixed.
12-06-06 A bug in which unset of an associative array of compound variables
did not completely unset the variable has been fixed.
12-06-06 A bug in which exporting left or right justfied fields could loose
the field width has been fixed.
12-06-06 A bug on Solaris11 in which >; did not work for /dev/null was fixed.
12-06-05 A race condition which occured when stopping a builtin command
invoked from a subshell has been fixed.
12-06-05 A bug with appending elements to an empty indexed array has been
fixed.
12-06-04 A bug in which continuing a stopped builtin could cause it to
terminate has been fixed.
12-06-04 By default, builtins added at runtime will restore the current
directory if they are killed or stopped.
12-06-04 A bug in handling \ in read has been fixed.
12-05-31 Use getrlimit64/setrlimit64 on systems that support it.
12-05-31 Fix 64 bit big-endian arithmentic bug that mishandled nan and inf.
12-05-31 Handle ECONNRESET like EPIPE.
12-05-31 Change .paths parse to use only the last BUILTIN_LIB from the top
and treat BUILTIN_LIB value as a ':' separated list of lib names.
12-05-29 Fix BUILTIN_LIB binding bug that ignored subsequent lookups.
12-05-29 shtests: --nocompile omits the compile test and --compile does only
the compile test.
12-05-25 A command subsitution containing a here-document that itself contains
a here-document no longer hangs.
12-05-24 When the redirection operatory >; is directed to a symlink, it now
overwrites the file named by the link rather than the link.
12-05-21 +Added printf formats %(type)q where type can be html, url, pattern,
ere, or csv.
12-05-18 A bug with appending elements to an indexed array has been fixed.
12-05-18 The exit status from getopts --man interactively was 0 instead of 2
and has been fixed.
12-05-18 Another bug with SHOPT_EDPREDICT which could cause a core dump has
been fixed.
12-05-17 A bug with fixed size arrays which could cause a core dump has been
fixed.
12-05-17 A bug in which the here-document <<< $(<file) was not processed
correctly has been fixed.
12-05-15 The default value for -L, -R, and -Z when the size was not set was
incorrectly defaulting to 1 and has been fixed.
12-05-15 A bug in which a subshell of the form (name=value exec ...) could
coredump when name is an environment variable and xtrace is on has
been fixed.
12-05-15 Fixed a .paths bug in which only the first BUILTIN_LIB assignment worked.
12-05-14 Arithmetic expressions and subexpressions that are not floating point
now treat -0 as 0, so that $((-0)) is 0 and $((-0.0)) is -0.
12-05-11 'unset .sh' now fails with readonly message instead of coredump.
12-05-11 A bug which left an associative array arr containing one element in
the wrong state after expanding with ${arr[@]} has been fixed.
12-05-10 A bug in which typeset -f did not display options that called getopts
has been fixed.
12-05-08 Fixed a number of potential bugs uncovered by valgrind.
12-05-08 A bug in which typeset -b -Z10 var did not initialize var to the
empty string has been fixed.
12-05-07 A bug in which the exit value of an interactive shell could be
affected by the evaluation of the PS1 prompt has been fixed.
12-05-04 A bug in which x=() was not unsetting the old value of x before
creating an empty compound variable has been fixed.
12-05-01 A bug in vi edit mode in which after <ESC>^V, the terminal was not
restored to insert mode after a character is entered has been fixed.
12-04-27 A bug in which old attributes were not cleared when assigning a
value using typeset has been fixed.
12-04-26 +Enabled multiline editing by default. set +o multiline can disable.
12-04-25 The 12-04-17 PATH fix created a new bug which was fixed.
12-04-25 Fixed a big memory leak problem in which unsetting compound variables
did not free all the space.
12-04-25 A bug in which test ! ! ! was treated as an error has been fixed.
12-04-24 A bug with print -v for a compound variable that contained fixed
arrays which prevented the output from being used again as input
has been fixed.
12-04-23 +kill provides the STKFLT signal on systems that support it.
12-04-23 +The -L option was added to kill. The -L option is the same as -l
except that without arguments the output format is in the form of
a select menu.
12-04-23 A bug in which the exit status for an interactive shell was always
0 has been fixed.
12-04-20 Entering blank lines interactively no longer resets the exit status.
12-04-18 A bug in file completion in which the second tab completion on a file
would list the completion rather than inserting the completion has
been fixed.
12-04-18 A bug in which "${arr[@]:i:j}" and "${@:i:j}" generated the empty
string when i was a valid subscript and j was <=0 rather than
generating nothing has been fixed.
12-04-17 A bug in which read -d delim from a terminal did not respond to
interrupt and did not termrinate when the delimiter was entered
has been fixed.
12-04-17 A bug in which a directory in PATH containing a .paths file that
contains a line with FPATH=dir, where dir does not exist could
cause the path search to fail has been fixed.
12-04-16 A bug in which $(trap -p) did not display traps such as ERR and
DEBUG that are not associated with signals has been fixed.
12-04-11 A bug in which unsetting a variable did not unset attributes when
the variable did not have a value has been fixed.
12-04-11 A bug in which read -A for an array whose index is an enumeration
type, lost the enumeration type has been fixed.
12-04-10 Shared libraries loaded from a library named by a BUILTIN_LIB= found
in a .paths file found in a directory on PATH now add builtins that
are associated with the directory in PATH containing the .paths file.
12-04-09 Increased I/O buffer sizes for better performance.
12-04-09 A bug in which the leading 0 was stripped from $x, when $x contained
a heximadecimal constant inside an arithmetic expression inside
a for or while loop.
12-04-06 Modified namespaces to hand variabes FPATH, PATH, and OPTIND that
are defined in name spaces appropriately. This also fixed OPTIND
and OPTARG processing for functions.
12-04-04 A bug in which cd .. fails when the current directory has been
renamed has been fixed.
12-04-02 Made some namespace changes and added a regression test.
12-03-30 A bug with namespaces in which PATH and FPATH set in a namespace was
not restored when leaving the namespace has been fixed.
12-03-29 --- Release ksh93u++ ---
12-03-29 A bug in which appending an index array onto an array without elements
caused the first element to be 1 rather than 0 has been fixed.
12-03-29 A bug which could cause a core dump when copying a large index array
has been fixed.
12-03-28 The shell now generates an error message when the sizes with L, Z, and
R are > 32767 on 32 bit binaries instead of generating a core dump.
12-03-28 A bug in left and right justification in which the width of invalid
characters was not taken as zero has been fixed.
12-03-26 A bug in which typeset -p ref, when ref is a reference to an index
array element did not display the subscript has been fixed.
12-03-23 A bug in lowercase and uppercase fields when expanding ${name:=val}
when name is the empty string has been fixed.
12-03-22 A namespace bug in which a type t defined in namespace foo could not
be referenced outside the namespace as .foo.t has been fixed.
12-03-22 A bug in name reference scoping in which a name function called from
another function is pass a name reference to a compound variable
instance to be created and the compound variable is in the global
scope.
12-03-22 A bug in which ${ref[@}} did not behave like ${arr[i][@]} when
ref is a name reference to arr[i] has been fixed.
12-03-21 A bug in which assigning a compound variable into arr[i], where
arr[i] is an array variable did not work correctly has been fixed.
12-03-21 A bug with multi-dimenstional index arrays in which ${arr[i][j]}
could generate a bogus error message when i was > 9 has been fixed.
12-03-21 A bug in which typeset v=foo, typeset -p v[0] generated a core dump
has been fixed.
12-03-20 A bug in vi edit mode in which the sequence bar<ESC>0i<ESC>l left the
cursor on the b rather than the a has been fixed.
12-03-20 A bug which caused a core dump when defining a type with a field
as ' integer -a data=([0]=0)' has been fixed.
12-03-19 Using typeset -a array when array is an associative arry not
generated an error message.
12-03-19 typeset +a, typeset +A, and typeset +C not displays the variables
with the attributes a, A, and C respectively instead of an error.
12-03-19 A bug in which typeset -pC, typeset -pa, and typeset -pA output all
variables rather than those of type C, a, or A only has been fixed.
12-03-18 A bug in which unset foo where foo is a name reference to a compound
variable defined inside a function is not unset has been fixed.
12-03-18 A bug with SHOPT_EDPREDICT which could cause a core dump when the
list of matches became empty has been fixed.
12-03-15 The assignment, typeset -C foo=(a b c) now generates a syntax
error since a is not an assignment command.
12-03-16 A bug in which an unset discipline from a variable defined in a
subshell is not invoked in the subshell has been fixed.
12-03-08 The assignment typeset -a (x=1 y=2) now creates an index array
of two elements rathern than an array of one element which is
a compound variable.
12-03-02 +The vi and emacs edit modes now list all the entries in a directory
when entering a <tab> for completion after a /.
12-03-02 A bug in which a program that exits with value 12 when called
from a command substitution in which standard output has been
redirected caused the shell to hang has been fixed.
12-03-01 A bug in which the shell could not parse [[ ']' == ~(E)[]] ]]
has been fixed.
# INIT
12-07-17 iffe.sh: add C code NOTE("...") to ammend --verbose output
12-06-26 iffe.sh: fix "npt foo" to handle function-like macro foo()
12-06-20 package.sh: use $KSH for rt in "results test"
12-06-15 Makefile: add PLUGIN_LIB to $INSTALLROOT/bin/.paths and BUILTIN_LIB => PLUGIN_LIB
12-06-15 package.sh: add PLUGIN_LIB to $INSTALLROOT/bin/.paths and BUILTIN_LIB => PLUGIN_LIB
12-06-13 package.sh: handle admin.db column output
12-06-08 iffe.sh: fix 12-06-06 typo
12-06-06 iffe.sh: check for -l* in reverse and accumulative order (e.g., for -last & -lm)
12-06-04 package.sh: always check $INSTALLROOT/lib/package/profile
12-05-31 Makefile: ID=ast; $(INSTALLROOT)/prototyped.h => $(INSTALLROOT)/$(ID)/prototyped.h
12-05-28 iffe.sh: api foo YYYYMMDD => FOOAPI(rel) test macro
12-05-24 package.sh: change admin.db comment => owner attributes
12-04-25 ratz.c: add sear -k option to keep installation tmp dir on exit
12-04-17 package.sh: skip sh version logic for ``use''
12-04-17 cc.ibm.risc*: _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE => _LARGE_FILE_API moved to libast/features
12-04-09 cc.ibm.risc*: speak aixese for _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE
12-02-29 cc.darwin.i386*: handle default cc vs kernel bittedness
12-02-29 C+probe: add __TIMESTAMP__ to the nopredefined list
12-02-29 package.sh: don't assume grep -q or /usr/local/lib in LD_LIBRARY_PATH
12-02-29 package.sh: fix ksh vs -lcmd compatibility checks
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