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author | Igor Pashev <pashev.igor@gmail.com> | 2012-06-24 22:28:35 +0000 |
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committer | Igor Pashev <pashev.igor@gmail.com> | 2012-06-24 22:28:35 +0000 |
commit | 3950ffe2a485479f6561c27364d3d7df5a21d124 (patch) | |
tree | 468c6e14449d1b1e279222ec32f676b0311917d2 /src/cmd/ksh93/RELEASE | |
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diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/RELEASE b/src/cmd/ksh93/RELEASE new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2f95505 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/RELEASE @@ -0,0 +1,2888 @@ +12-02-29 --- Release ksh93u+ --- +12-02-29 A bug which could lead to a core dump when more that four shared + libraries were added with the builtin command has been fixed. +12-02-29 Fixed a few bugs which caused SIGCHLD to be blocked preventing + background jobs from being reaped until a foreground job was run. +12-02-27 A bug in which sh -c for a simple command caused a fork() has been + fixed. +12-02-27 A timing bug on systems such as AIX that doesn't support vfork() + that could cause the exist status to get lost has been fixed. +12-02-22 A private file descriptor that was not close-on-exec for a command + substitution and has been fixed. +12-02-14 A bug in which ^Z did not stop a pipeline when the last component + was a shell built-in has been fixed. +12-02-14 getconf("PATH") used to initialize ed(1) path. +12-02-13 +In earlier version read from standard input would fail when called + from the KEYBD trap. Now read options -N, -n, and -t should work + when called from a KEYBD trap. +12-02-13 If FCEDIT is not set and fc is invoked without the -e option, + ed will be invoked if found instead of /bin/ed. +12-02-10 Another bug in the saving and restoring of IFS in a subshell + that caused a core dump has been fixed. +12-02-08 A bug in which .sh.fun disciplines could be cleared after a + function completes has been fixed. +12-02-08 A bug in job control in which the foregroup process group was not + set correctly after restarting a stopped pipeline has been fixed. +12-02-07 A bug in which numbers with leading zeros could be treated as + octal constants outside of ((...)) has been fixed. +12-02-06 A bug in arithmetic with compound variables containing multiple + array elements has been fixed. +12-02-02 A bug in the ulimit option table was fixed. +12-01-26 A bug in which a set command that did not change monitor could + effect the behavior of the monitor when monitor mode is on is fixed. +12-01-21 +You can now test whether the shell implements a math function using + typeset -f .sh.math.name, where name is the name of the function. +12-01-21 A bug in which typeset -L and typeset -R did not handle multibyte + characters correctly has been fixed. +12-01-20 A bug that could cause the shell to hang waiting for an incorrect + job pid has been fixed. +12-01-19 A memory leak which occured for a nested command subtiution has been + fixed. +12-01-17 A bug in which typeset -u PS1 could enable the uppercase attribute + for some other variables, for exampe, HISTFILE has been fixed. +12-01-16 A bug in which .sh.match was not correct after a substring match when + the replacement string contained a substring match has been fixed. +12-01-12 +Files that are sourced from profile files are now read and executed + one command at a time so that alias definitions take effect as they + do for profile files. +12-01-12 A bug in which whence -p would find a function if one existed and + there was no command of that name on PATH. +12-01-11 Change b_* prototype (int, char**, void*) => (int, char**, Shbltin_t*). +12-01-05 A bug in which read was not terminating for a signal that had a trap + set has been fixed. +12-01-01 A timing problem with >; has been fixed. +12-01-01 A macro expansion memory leak has been fixed. +11-12-26 A bug in array assignments of the form arr=( $arr[i] ...) in which + arr was not unset before the assignment has been fixed. +11-12-20 A number of code changes were made based on the results of errors + indicated by static code analysis. +11-12-13 In vi edit mode a lteral <TAB> can now be entered by preceding it + with a backshash. +11-12-13 When tab is entered for completion after a ' or ", the ' and " + characters are no longer deleted. +11-12-07 A bug in which a program in the current direcotry with a . in the + name could fail to execute when both PATH and FPATH end with :. has + been fixed. +11-12-07 I fixed a bug in which a variable expansion in a large here-document + could be expanded to a null string. +11-12-06 An optimization to read was added in the case the the read command + was redirected from a file. +11-12-06 Changes were made to make the line limit for read unlimited by + default. +11-12-05 A bug in which unsetting an array variable did not completely clear + the variable in some cases has been fixed. +11-12-02 +The printf alternative character # when applied to the %q format will + quote argument in a form suitable for a field in a .csv format file. +11-12-02 +A -S option was added to read to be able to read .csv format files. +11-11-28 A bug in which redirection of standard error in a function called from + command substitution caused standard error to be lost has ben fixed. +11-11-21 [[ (-n foo) ]] no longer requires a space before (. +11-11-11 The readonly attribute for a variable now applies to compound + assignments to that variable. +11-11-07 Changes were made to reduce the stack size to allow deeper function + recursion. +11-10-10 +Added alternate flag to printf %H for encoding of URI's. +11-10-10 A bug which could lead to a core dump when the shell was invoked + with more than twenty five open files has been fixed. +11-10-06 A bug in the scoping of name references in functions called by other + functions has been fixed. +11-10-05 A bug in which wait on a pid may return the exit status of an + earlier background job with that pid instead has been fixed. +11-09-22 A bug in which a read timed out with TMOUT did not always restore + the terminal state has been fixed. +11-09-21 An optimization that allowed the last command in a script to use + the same process id as the script has been eliminated. +11-09-21 Added letoctal option that enables the let command to recognize + octal constants starting with 0. +11-09-20 A bug in which ${var.} could cause a core dump has been fixed. +11-09-20 A bug with SHOPT_EDPREDICT when neither vi or emacs was enabled for + lines beginning with # when in a multibyte locale has been fixed. +11-09-20 A bug in emacs edit mode with SHOPT_EDPREDICT that would cause + history searches matching comments lines to generate predictions + has been fixed. Only user typed comment lines generate predictions. +11-09-20 A bug in emacs edit mode with a search that matches a comment line + that could cause a core dump has been fixed. +11-09-16 A bug in which a command name ending in .. could cause the shell to + abort has been fixed. +11-09-16 The characters ! + - % and @ in file names are no longer escaped with + file name completion. +11-09-13 The let command no longer treats numbers starting with 0 as octal + constants. +11-09-08 A bug in which printf "%R" could cause a core dump for invalid shell + patterns has been fixed. +11-08-09 With set -u, ${var#pattern} reported that var was unset for special + variables. +11-08-03 A bug in which the shell did not preserve the exit status for a + coprocess has been fixed. +11-08-02 A bug in the saving and restoring of IFS in command substitution that + caused a core dump has been fixed. +11-07-21 Modified the 10-08-27 bug fix so that background jobs started in for + and while loops created interactively generate completion messages. +11-07-20 I fixed a bug in here documents in which multi-byte characters that + crossed buffer boundaries were not processed correctly. +11-06-22 The shell compiler now supports process substitution. +11-06-22 +Added code to support process substitution on systems that do + not supply the /dev/fd directory. +11-06-21 Fixed extraneous jobs Done messages when builtin is at the end of a + pipeline. +11-06-20 Fixed two regression tests. +11-06-20 Fixed a bug introduced on last update. +11-06-14 A bug with pipefail in which the shell would wait for background + jobs to complete has been fixed. +11-06-09 A bug which caused the options.sh regression test to fail on OS390 + Linux has been fixed. The bug could also have affected other systems. +11-06-07 +A number of changes to support the still undocuments namespace option + have been added. +11-06-06 A bug in which command substitution of eval would hang when it had + standard error redirected to standard output has been fixed. +11-06-01 A bug in case statement fall through (;&) ignoring set -e was fixed. +11-06-01 A bug in which creating a left or right justified upper or lowercase + variable with an empty string has been fixed. +11-06-01 A bug in which the .paths directory wasn't read when a subshell was + executed before any other command has been fixed. +11-05-31 The shell now gives an error when a type variable is assigned to + an array instance when the array has been declared a compound variable + array. +11-05-31 A bug in which typeset -m of an array instance did not remove the + original instance has been fixed. +11-05-28 A bug in which typeset -m dest=src fails when src and are passed as + name references was fixed. +11-05-28 A bug in which typeset -m "c.board[1][i]=el", where el is a compound + variable core dumps has been fixed. +11-05-28 Two bugs in the display of arrays of compound variables with print -v + have been fixed. +11-05-27 A bug with command substitution with the shift jis locale has been + fixed. +11-05-25 A bug in which unset -f foo, called within function foo could cause + the shell to core dump has been fixed. +11-05-24 A bug in unsetting arrays of compound variables that could lead to + a core dump has been fixed. +11-05-24 A scoping bug in with typeset -m for variables passed as references + has been fixed. +11-05-09 A bug in which 'typeset +p array[$i]' in a subshell could cause an + exception has been fixed. +11-05-03 Two more scoping bugs with name references and read -C were fixed. +11-05-03 A potential race condition which occurs when here-documents are + processed in asynchronous blocks has been eliminated. +11-05-02 Another scoping bug with name references defined in a function has + been fixed. +11-05-02 A bug in which the shell discards saved exit status of a job if it is + followed by a subshell execution has been fixed. +11-04-28 The shell now checks for numerical overflows with process ids. +11-04-28 Another scoping bug with compound variables defined by name references + inside a function has been fixed. +11-04-28 A bug which caused a core dump on 32 bit systems with the basic.sh + regression test has been fixed. +11-04-27 A scope binding error for name references has been fixed. +11-04-27 Assignment of compound variable to compound array element by name + is now working. +11-04-26 I fixed a bug with SHOPT_FIXEDARRAY compilation that could cause + an a core dump for not fixed arrays. +11-04-25 A bug in the references to two dimensional compound arrays has + been fixed. +11-04-20 A bug in which a name reference to a multidimentional index array + index, nameref x=foo[3][4], did not work correctly has been fixed. +11-04-18 Changes were added to allow fixed size arrays of variable sized + objects when the SHOPT_FIXEDARRAY compile option defined on 10-09-28. +11-04-18 A bug in which name references to array elements could fail has + been fixed. +11-04-15 +A compile option, SHOPT_2DMATCH, has been added which causes + .sh.match to be a two dimensional array after ${var//pat/str} + where the first dimension is the pattern number and the second is + the match instance. +11-04-11 A bug in which readonly var, where var is exported could cause var + to be unset has been fixed. +11-04-06 A tokenizer bug in which ${x/{3}(\d)/ } would cause in infinite + loop has been fixed. +11-04-05 A bug in which ${!x.} could cause a core dump has been fixed. +11-04-04 A bug in which cleaning out the history file could terminate before + keeping all the recent history events has been fixed. +11-03-29 A bug in which ${#array[@]} was 1 rather than 0 after issuing + typeset array[7] has been fixed. +11-03-29 The subscript out or range message for fixed arrays has been fixed. +11-03-29 A bug in which suspend could cause a core dump has been fixed. +11-03-24 For the showme option added 09-09-09, commands beginning with a ; + inside an arithmetic for loop, no longer produce syntax errors. +11-03-18 A bug in _WINIX ~domain/user expansion has been fixed. +11-03-16 A bug in the pipefail option which could cause a script to hang + has been fixed. +11-03-12 The shell no longer treats ${##pattern} as a syntax error. +11-03-11 A bug in typeset -u on systems that don't supply the towctrans() + function has been fixed. +11-03-11 A bug in which a compound assignment of the form var[sub]=(...) + would evaluate sub for each assignment has been fixed. +11-03-07 A bug in which reassigning a compound variable to an associative + array index could incorrectly increase the count of the number + of elements has been fixed. +11-03-04 +The tilde expansion on windows has been modified to handle user + names of the form domain/user so that ~domain/user now expands + to the home directory of that domain user. +11-03-03 A bug in which the width of the prompt was calculated incorectly + which cause the wrong line length for edit commands has been fixed. +11-03-02 A bug in which a global variables set from within a function inside + a subshell can leave side effects in parent shell has been fixed. +11-03-01 A bug in which whence -a could dump core when the first match + was due to : in PATH and the program was in the current directory. +11-02-28 A bug in emacs mode with SHOPT_EDPREDICT (added on 10-05-20) which + disabled prediction on a line starting with # when the cursor was not + at the end of line has been fixed. +11-02-28 The output format for compound variables with set has been fixed. +11-02-25 A bug which could lead to a core dump occurred when a shell script + without #! is invoked by name from a parent shell that has name + references defined and the script creates name references of the + same name. +11-02-21 The shell now fails with a syntax error when a here-document in a + command substition is not completed before the closing ), for + example, $( foobar <<! ) + here_doc + !. +11-02-18 A bug in which the value of $0 in a function defined by name() + was changed to name has been fixed. +11-02-17 A bug in which the declaration typeset var[100] did not work + correctly has been fixed. +11-02-15 A bug in which [[ -v sh.match ]] did not work correctly has been + fixed. + +11-02-08 --- Release ksh93u --- +11-02-08 A bug in which opening standard output after it has been closed with + exec 1>&- doesn't work has been fixed. +11-02-07 A bug on some systems for which a command subtitution could hang + has been fixed. +11-01-28 A bug in file name completion for files containing both multibyte + characters shell special characters has been fixed. +11-01-18 The .sh.match variable now shows elements that do not match as + as not set rather than an empty string. +11-01-18 A bug with typeset -m of an array into an element of an indexed + array has been fixed. +11-01-13 A bug in handling of arrays of compound variables inside ((...)) which + reported a syntax error been fixed. +11-01-10 A bug in arithmetic assignment operators of the form op= for array + variables when the same array was referenced on the left and the + right hand side with different indices has been fixed. +11-01-10 A bug in which the output of time was lost when { time...;} 2>&1 + occurred inside command substition has been fixed. +11-01-07 [[ -v sh.match[i] ]] was returning false when sh.match[i] was set. +11-01-05 Added and modified warning messages with sh -n. +11-01-02 Fixed bugs with typeset -l/-u/-M and arrays. +10-12-28 Fixed a bug with typeset -l/-u/-M values in arithmetic expressions. +10-12-26 Fixed a time parsing bug in sleep and localeconv() initialization. +10-12-23 Prevented the shell from generating a core dump when it sends itself + a termination signal because the last command terminated with that + signal. This prevents a core dump to be overwritten by the shell. +10-12-22 A bug in the expansion of ${A[@]} ${B[@]}, introduced in 10-12-01 + when A="" B=B has been fixed. +10-12-21 +Use MS_3D in b_vpath() for setting win32 WoW mount defaults. +10-12-17 A bug in the expansion of ${var:i:j} which caused a core dump when + i > ${#var} has been fixed. +10-12-16 +sleep now treats . as decimal point even in locales that use comma. +10-12-16 +typeset -M mapname was added to generalize on toupper and tolowwer + mapping as provided with wctrans(). +10-12-10 A bug in which typeset -l displayed namespaces as well as lower case + variables has been fixed. +10-12-06 A bug in which a pipeline could terminate prematurely for a pipeline + whose right hand side is a builtin, and whose left hand side ends in + a simple command that has standard output redirected has been fixed. +10-12-06 A bug in hexfloat assignments when the right hand side is a string + variable starting with 0x has been fixed. +10-12-01 A bug in the expansion of ${$1+"$@"} which causes the last positional + parameter to disappear when it is empty has been fixed. +10-12-01 A number of changes were made to reduce the startup time. +10-11-29 When wait is interrupted by a signal that is caught, it now exits + with a non-zero exit status. +10-11-29 When a variable is used directly in an arithmetic expression, + leading zeros no longer cause the value to be treated as an + octal constant. This was true in previous versions for justified + variables. +10-11-29 An incorrect warning message was eliminated with the -n option for + arithmetic expressions with associative arrays. +10-11-29 Some changes were made to slightly reduces startup time. +10-11-24 A bug in which a name reference is make to arr[0] when arr is not + an array has been fixed. +10-11-23 If a type definition is made without a compound variable assignment it + produces an error message and no longer shows up as a defined type. +10-11-22 The handling of \ inside [...] for for shell and ~(E) patterns has + been fixed. +10-11-22 A patch was made to pfsh to handle an error case. +10-11-22 +Modified types defined in namespace so that they do not clash with + types in other namespaces. Types can be referenced using + .namespace.typename. +10-11-22 A bug which caused functions addressed as .namespace.funct to not + work has been fixed. +10-11-22 A bug in which if nr was a name reference to an unset associative + array subscript, then ${!nr} did not output the subscript correctly + has been fixed. +10-11-18 A bug in which shcomp -n was not processing double quotes correctly + has been fixed. +10-11-18 Fixed a bug in which typeset -T foo; typeset -T could cause a + core dump. +10-11-17 Fixed a bug in which the error message for set -u could come out + garbelled. +10-11-17 Modified the parser so that typeset -a var=(...) no longer checks + the first index for aliases and reserved words. +10-11-17 A bug in which a subshell command consisted of only a for or until + command has been fixed. +10-11-16 Fixed a bug in which typeset -u would display namespace variables + as well as upper case variables. +10-11-16 A bug which could cause a core dump when unsetting a type variable + when there are references to type elements has been fixed. +10-11-15 A bug which could cause a core dump when unsetting a compound + array variable when there are references to array subscripts has + been fixed. +10-11-15 A bug in which using typeset -m to move an indexed array instance + to another array could cause the array to display incorrectly has + been fixed. +10-11-12 A bug in which the unset discipline function for a type is called + when the type is initialized has been fixed. +10-11-12 The sequences \< and \> are now preserved after patterns containing + ~(E) in ${var/pattern/string} expansions. +10-11-11 A bug in typeset -m when the variables were compound arrary instances + has been fixed. +10-11-10 A bug in output of a compound variable with types containing types + has been fixed. +10-11-10 Fixed ``name=value export [-p]'' to list environment. +10-11-09 shtests resets SIGPIPE to SIG_DFL for all tests. +10-11-09 Fixed a bug in expansion of $"..." when used in assignments. +10-11-09 Fixed a getaddrinfo() memory leak that didn't call freeaddrinfo() + after an interrupt. +10-11-08 Modified the behavior of set -u so that the shell terminates with + error message when when var is unset with ${!var} and ${#var}. +10-11-02 Fix a bug in which a signal received while in a subshell could be + ignored. +10-10-26 Fix a bug where terminal interrupt was ignored while in vi/emacs + edit search mode. +10-10-26 Fix $'a\0b'c to expand to 'ac'. +10-10-26 Provide user defined round() if not in <math.h>. +10-10-26 Fix bug where $((undefined_function(1))) dumped core. +10-10-22 Provide user defined iszero() if not in <math.h>. +10-10-22 Fixed a bug with BGX compile option that could cause the shell to + hang. +10-10-22 Fixed a bug with user define math function on systems for which + char is unsigned. +10-10-21 A bug in which function autoloaded in a function leaves a file open + has been fixed. +10-10-20 Modified the behavior of set -u so that the shell terminates when + when var is unset with ${var op string} when op is #, % or /. +10-10-20 Fixed a bug with the AUDIT option in which the audit file was not + not close-on-exec. +10-10-20 +Made a number of changes and fixes for the NAMESPACE compile option + which as added on 10-06-09 but some problems still remain. +10-10-15 Fixed a bug in which arithmetic functions (added on 10-03-24) did + not work when the function definition was in the same compound + command in which the function was referenced. +10-10-13 A bug in which creating an associative array of compound variables + with no members as an element of a compound variable did not work + has been fixed. +10-10-08 A bug in which killing the last command in a function defined + with function name, terminated the calling script has been fixed. +10-10-08 A bug which could cause a core dump if IFS is unset inside a function + has been fixed. +10-10-07 +To reduce unwanted side effects, invoking typeset without the export + option and without an assignment now causes the variables to be unset + if the variable is inherited from the environment. +10-10-06 The closing brace for ${ command } is now a token no matter what + character follows it. +10-10-04 The change for $'...' expansion on 10-08-09 did not expand parameters + contained in the error message and this has been fixed. +10-10-04 A bug in which a declaration of indexed array (-a_ in a type + definition would be displayed as a compound indexed array (-C -a) + has been fixed. +10-09-30 The C99 math function ldexp has been added. +10-09-30 A bug with two dimensional arrays with expansion of the form + ${ref[0..5]} where ref is a nameref to array[i] has been fixed. +10-09-29 A bug in which an eval with redirections invoked from a dot script + would not restore the file has been fixed. +10-09-29 A bug in which loading a function from FPATH could leave a file + descriptor open has been fixed. +10-09-28 +A new compile option SHOPT_FIXEDARRAY has been added and is being + evaluation. It allows fixed sized indexed arrays be to defined + using "typeset array[dim1][dim2]...[dimn]". Fixed sized arrays + are used the same way indexed arrays are. Currently, only fixed + arrays of fixed objects (float, int, and justifies objects) are + supported. +10-09-22 A bug which could cause an exception when a function with static + variables was redefined has been fixed. +10-09-21 A bug in the processing of (command&) which created a job in the + parent process has been fixed. +10-09-21 A for loop optimization bug with arithmetic expression evaluation + has been fixed. +10-09-21 A bug in which a recursive function containing a pipeline could + lead to an exception fixed after 8 levels of recursion has been + fixed. +10-09-18 A bug in which the count of elements in an array was wrong leading + to an exception has been fixed. +10-09-13 A bug which occurred when both xtrace and showme options where + specified in which the xtrace option disabled showme has been fixed. +10-09-13 A bug in which creating a reference to an array variable with any + elements could cause subsequent array elements to be treated as + compound variables has been fixed. +10-09-09 A bug which caused ((c.ar[x][y])) to be treated as a syntax error + has been fixed. +10-09-08 A bug in the processing of references to multidimensional arrays + in arithmetic expressions has been fixed. +10-09-08 A bug in the handling of multi-dimensional arrays which caused + the number of elements in each dimension to be incorrect has + been fixed. +10-09-07 The change for messages on 10-08-09 did not handle message in + assignments and this has been fixed. +10-09-07 A bug in the indentation of compound variables in arrays when + output with print -v has been fixed. +10-09-07 A rare bug with indexed arrays when assigned a null string that could + cause a core dump has been fixed. +10-09-03 A number of changes were made for jobs pools. +10-08-31 typeset -p was modified to output name references after other + variables so that the output could be used as input. +10-08-31 A bug with typeset -p in which variables with attributes but + without attributes were not displayed correctly has been fixed. +10-08-27 +When running a subshell, the current pool is unset. +10-08-27 A bug in which jobs started from within for or while lists in + interactive shells could generate completion messages has been fixed. +10-08-25 Fixed a couple of bugs related to job pools. +10-08-24 +[[ -e /dev/xxx/ ]] can be used to check whether special files of + those names are handled by the shell. +10-08-24 A bug in the running of a compiled dot script in which only the + first command was executed has been fixed. +10-08-23 A bug which sometimes caused a core dump with a configure script + has been fixed. +10-08-20 A bug in command substitution which caused a configure script to + hang has been fixed. +10-08-19 Eliminated unnecessary ; from output of compound variable with + typeset -p. +10-08-17 Fixed a bug in command substitution in which under certain + circumstances a file whose size is a power of 2 plus one, and the last + character was not a new-line, could cause memory corruption. +10-08-13 +Added static discipline functions to type similar to C++ static + class functions. +10-08-11 A bug in time when applied to a pipeline in which the shell did + not wait for all elements of the pipeline to complete has been fixed. +10-08-11 Restored sh_fmtq() quoting to not quote NAME= in NAME=VALUE. +10-08-09 +Modified the expansion of message strings, $"...", so that they + are expanded each time they are referenced rather than expanding + them when the script is compiled or read in. +10-08-06 +The process id for jobs in job pools is now of the form poolname.n + where n is the jobid in that pool. Commands that accept job names + or numbers now understand names in this format. +10-08-05 A bug in which an assignment from within an arithmetic expression + inside a function would create a local variable has been fixed. +10-08-04 A bug in the expanding of variables whose names contain multibyte + characters has been fixed. +10-08-04 A bug which caused an exception when processing scripts compiled + with shcomp -n has been fixed. +10-08-02 Tests using very small buffer sizes uncovered a number of bug most + connected with here documents which have been fixed. +10-07-27 The format modifier , used for digit grouping with d and f formats + has been documented. +10-07-26 cd '' now produces and error rather than changing to the current + directory. +10-07-26 A bug in multi-byte locales which the last character of a + multi-byte character is a \ or pattern character which could occur + when the character was the last character of a command substitution + has been fixed. +10-07-23 Another bug in the processing of ${var:offset;len} in multi-byte + locales when len is larger than the number of characters has been + fixed. +10-07-23 Many coding changes have been made to eliminate most of the uses + of global variables in the shell code. +10-07-22 Fixed a bug in which discipline functions were not being invoked + when it was invoked as ref.discipline where ref was a name reference + to an array instance. +10-07-22 Fixed a bug in which discipline functions were not being invoked it + was invoked on a two dimensional array, i.e., arr[5][9].discipline. +10-07-19 Fixed a buffering problem which occurred when running a script with + ssh and the parent ssh process is killed. +10-07-14 Modified the parser to treat ((...)) inside [[...]] as ( (...) ) to + that it is a nested (...). +10-07-09 A bug in the handling of process substitution inside command + substitution as part of a pipeline has been fixed. +10-07-07 A bug in the output for compound variables containing + multi-dimensional arrays has been fixed. +10-07-06 ksh now recovers from changes made by bash to the history file without + loosing history commands. +10-06-25 A bug in which a large here document containing command substitutions + of a dynamically loaded function that contained a here document + could get truncated has been fixed. +10-06-24 If after executing a script found in FPATH, if a function, builtin, + or type name corresponding to that script is not defined, the shell + now outputs an error message and returns value 126. +10-06-23 Floating point functions that happened to return integer values + were being treated as if the function returned integers so that + integer division could be used instead of floating point division. +10-06-22 Fixed a bug in earlier ksh93u in which an arithmetic assignment to a + variable in the global scope would instead create a local variable if + the variable had an attribute but did not have a value. +10-06-18 Modified trap handling so that if the same signal is received when + executing the handler, it is deferred until the handler completes. +10-06-16 Fixed a bug in which ulimit -v was setting the the cpu limit + on Linux. +10-06-14 +The command 'typeset -T' now generates the list of type definitions + in a format that can be used as input to the shell. +10-06-09 Put in patch from Solaris for output quoting with %q. +10-06-09 +Made changes to the NAMESPACE compile option so that it now seems + to work. With this option, namespace <name> { command;} will + run command in the namespace .name so that all variables and + functions created by command are accessible outside the name + space via .name.var and .name.fun. Variables and functions that + are not in the namespace are not modified when running command. +10-06-07 Change most internal interfaces to take Sh_t* argument. +10-06-03 +Types can be loaded on first reference by putting definitions in + PFPATH. +10-06-03 +The shell is now able to parse commands which use type statements + before the typeset -T command to define the type executes. +10-06-03 A bug in the quoting for name reference declarations which did + not properly handle [ and ] in subscripts for associative arrays. +10-06-02 A bug in which a discipline function defined by a type instance to + override the default was not being registered has been fixed. +10-06-02 A bug in which read -C of an associative array of compound variables + was not working has been fixed. +10-06-02 A bug in which the error message for an unset parameter with set -u + did not contain the name of the variable has been fixed. +10-06-01 A bug in typeset -m for moving an indexed array instance to a variable + has been fixed. +10-06-01 A bug in which caused memory to be freed twice when unset was called + for an indexed array that had get or set disciplines has been fixed. +10-06-01 A bug in which the %b format of printf was not preserving NUL bytes + with \0 has been fixed. +10-06-01 A bug in the handling of name references to array variables in + arithmetic expressions has been fixed. +10-05-28 Fixed bugs in changing attributes for two dimensional arrays. +10-05-28 Eliminated a few unreferenced variables and a reference to + uninitialized memory. +10-05-27 Rewrote the subshell code to avoid using pipes an many cases. +10-05-24 Fixed a bug which cause an exception when both -l and -s were + specified with typeset -i. +10-05-21 Inputting of three dimensional indexed arrays with ( ( (...)...)...) + was not working and has been fixed. +10-05-21 A bug in which adding the attributes -Ai to a variable via a name + reference could cause the value to display incorrectly has been fixed. +10-05-21 A bug in which using $var inside ((...)) did not work when var was + a hex float variable. +10-05-20 +The compile option SHOPT_EDPREDICT has been added. When this option + is on, as you type a line beginning with a # the following characters + are treated as a shell pattern and cause matching lines from the + history file to be displayed as a numbered list as you type. + You can scroll up and down this list or you can use <ESC>nTAB + to make this the current line (n defaults to 1 of omitted) or + <ESC>n<cr> to execute. +10-05-20 A bug which caused an exception when multiple levels of composite + functions in arithemtic expressions has been fixed. +10-05-19 <<< with an empty string no longer gives an error. +10-05-19 A bug in arithmetic evaluation when a name reference to an array + instance was used has been fixed. +10-05-14 A bug in which the shell treats a valid index array assignment, + typeset -a x=(foo (x=3;y=4) bar) as a syntax error has been fixed. +10-05-13 A bug in creating name references to associative array variable + after a lookup of one of its elements has been fixed. +10-05-12 Two bugs in the handling of function static type variables in + subshells have been fixed. One could cause an exception and the + other would leave side effects in the parent shell. +10-05-10 A bug in which static variables in functions were not being saved and + restored properly when running subshells has been fixed. +10-05-05 A bug in which print -v did not work correctly when an operand was an + indexed array element referring to a compound variable has been fixed. +10-05-05 A change to improve performance by special casing empty string + assignments to avoid repeated malloc() and free(). +10-05-05 A bug in which creating a name reference to a non-existent associative + array element would create the array element has been fixed. +10-05-04 A bug in which name references to static variables in the static + scope were not found has been fixed. +10-04-30 Do not use socketpair() on systems that implement ioctl(I_PEEK) + on pipes. +10-04-29 +When the current job pool is set, coprocess are run in a job pool. +10-04-28 A type defined with a member foo that is an associative array without + elements followed by an expansion ${bar.foo[a]} and an assignment + bar.foo[a]=b, no longer indicates that ${#bar.foo[@]} has 0 members. +10-04-27 Another bug in which a nested command substitution could hang if it + generated too much data has been fixed. +10-04-26 A type defined with a member that is an indexed array without elements + would behave as if the 0th element of each instance was defined after + a non-zero element was specified and this has been fixed. +10-04-26 A bug in which types defined in a subshell were not undefined when + the subshell completed has been fixed. +10-04-23 For file completion in commmand line editing, file names starting + with # are now escaped so that they are not treated as comments. +10-04-23 A bug in which ${t.var:=value}, where t is an instance of a type + variable, could assign value to the type variable rather than to + the type instance has been fixed. +10-04-23 +Added &| which can be used in place of | to have portions of a + pipeline executed in the pool. +10-04-22 +The .sh.pool variable was added for use with job pools. +10-04-22 A bug in which a nested command substitution could hang if it + generated too much data has been fixed. +10-04-20 A bug which corrupted one byte of memory when read was called with + reads that did not use a delimiter has been fixed. +10-04-19 The display of a compound variable with an embedded array with + attributes was sometimes not working correctly and has been fixed. +10-04-16 A bug in which attributes were not be propagated to elements in + an associative array has been fixed. +10-04-15 A bug which caused scripts containing user defined math functions to + fail to compile with shcomp has been fixed. +10-04-15 +Job pools have been added with the SHOPT_COSHELL compilation option. + A job pool allows a collection of background jobs to run either locally + or remotely and to be managed as a unit. The command '& name ...' + creates or uses a named job pool for subsequent background jobs. + kill, wait, and jobs allow the pool name as operands. +10-04-14 A bug in which a coprocess connection could terminate prematurely + when running a nested subshell has been fixed. +10-04-12 +Enumeration constants can be used in arithmetic expressions with the + ==, != and = operators when the left hand side is an enum variable + and the right hand side is an enumeration constant. +10-04-07 A bug in which setting the trap on CHLD to ignore could cause + an incorrect exit status has been fixed. +10-04-06 A bug in which LINENO was not incremented for a here-document when + the here-document word was followed by a comment has been fixed. +10-04-06 The optimization that execs the last process of a script rather + than creating a new process has been removed when a trap on + interrupt has been set. +10-04-06 Unsetting the 'C', 'A' or 'a' typeset attribute now produces an + error message rather than generating an exception. +10-04-06 A bug in which .sh.name contained the subscript and .sh.subscript + was empty in some cases with discipline functions on array instances + has been fixed. +10-04-05 A bug in the edit modes where preceding the interrupt character with + the literal next character did not work has been fixed. +10-04-05 A bug in the creation of type instances of arrays which could cause + an exception has been fixed. +10-03-30 A bug in the display of a compound variable containing an indexed + array of compound variables has been fixed. +10-03-24 +Arithmetic functions can be defined using the shell function syntax, + 'function .sh.math.name x y z{...}' , where name is the function name + invoked within ((...)) and x y z are long double arguments passed + as name references. y and z are used for functions with two and + three arguments respectively. The value of the function is the value + of the long double .sh.value variable when the function returns. +10-03-24 A bug in which integer division was mistakenly used when the + numerator was a binary operator with the first operand floating + point and the second integer, e.g. (.1**3)/3, has been fixed. +10-03-24 The >; file operator was modified so that the temporary file is + created in the same physical directory as file. +10-03-23 A warning message was added to sh -n when $var was used inside + ((...)) instead of var. +10-03-19 fmin was added to the list of math function on the man page. +10-03-19 Fixed the return value for unalias when the alias did not + exist. +10-03-19 A bug in which the SHLVL variable exported the value it had on + input rather than the incremented value has been fixed. +10-03-19 A bug which causes whence -q to go into an infinite loop has been + fixed. +10-03-19 Removed space between Stopped message and (SIGTTIN) and (SIGTTOUT). +10-03-17 Modified profile shell execution so that when builtins that + correspond to executable have extended attributes, they are + executed by pfksh instead of being treated as built-ins. +10-03-16 A bug in whence -a which produced duplicate lines of output has + been fixed. +10-03-16 A bug in the handling of process groups in monitor mode for + command substitutions has been fixed. +10-03-15 Fixed a bug in which read -u[fd] could cause the shell to core + dump when fd was greater than open_max. +10-03-15 +Modified the shell I/O so that the shell will not fail if the + ulimit for open_max is increased as part of the script. +10-03-12 A bug in which a here-document containing command substitutions + that contained here-documents did not process correctly has been + fixed. +10-03-12 A bug in which the terminal is not restored to canonical mode + after read times out when in a multibyte locale with no edit mode + enabled has been fixed. + +10-03-05 --- Release ksh93t+ --- +10-03-05 A variable unset memory leak has been fixed and tests/leaks.sh + has been added to verify the fix. +10-03-04 Documentation, comment, and diagnostic spelling typos corrected. +10-02-14 Fix sh_getenv() initialization to cooperate with the 3d fs. +10-02-12 A bug in which the get discipline function was not invoked for + associative array subscripts for unset array elements has been fixed. +10-02-12 A bug which could occur if the last line of a script was an eval + that executed multiple commands has been fixed. +10-02-02 A buffer overflow in read and another in binary type base64 + encoding were fixed. +10-01-20 A bug in the evaluation of arithmetic expression in which the + subscript was evaluated twice for $((foo[x++]++)) has been fixed. +10-01-19 A workaround for a double-free of a trap in both a subshell and its + parent has been added. +10-01-18 A bug in type handling of typeset -H has been fixed. +10-01-15 The "adding empty subscript" warning now only emitted with -x set. +10-01-01 A bug in the parser in which '$((case i in i):;esac);:))' was not + parsed correctly was fixed. +10-01-01 A bug in the parser in which '$(( 2 , 3.6 ))' dumped core for locales + with radix char , and thousands separator . has been fixed. +09-12-28 A bug in the handling of SIGCLD on systems that generated SIGCLD + while blocked waiting for process to complete has been fixed. +09-12-24 ast setlocale() reworked to differentiate env var changes from user + override. +09-12-18 A bug with the SHOPT_BGX option set which disabled traps for signals + < SIGCHLD when a trap for a signal > SIGCHLD was set has been fixed. +09-12-18 A bug where [[ -v var ]] was incorrect for some variables (including + LC_* vars) has been fixed. +09-12-15 A bug that produced a syntax error when a multibyte character + straddled a buffer boundary has been fixed. +09-12-11 A bug where the subscript of an unset variable was not evaluated has + been fixed. +09-12-09 A bug where shcomp dumped core on certain syntax errors has been fixed. +09-12-07 A bug where a parent shell environment var reset in a subshell removed + the value in subsequent children of the parent shell has been fixed. +09-12-04 A bug in which in some cases a trap in a function executed in + a subshell could trigger twice has been fixed. +09-12-03 A bug in which SHLVL exported with some attributes could cause + the shell to abort at startup has been fixed. +09-12-02 A bug with pipefail in which the shell could hang waiting for the + writer to complete before the last reader command has been fixed. +09-11-30 A bug in which a trap could be inherited by the first element of + a pipeline when the command had more than 63 arguments that did + not contain any macro expansions has been fixed. +09-11-19 When read from a terminal was called from with a while or for loop, + and an edit mode was on, a backspace or erase no longer will + overwrite the prompt. +09-11-17 +Change .paths parse to handle BUILTIN_LIB=foo BUILTIN_LIB=foo-1.2. +09-11-17 Inside a function, typeset foo.bar will bind foo to global variable + foo if local variable foo does not exist, instead of creating a + local variable. +09-11-17 "read -n1" from the terminal has been fixed to read exactly one character. +09-11-11 Job control now works for subshell commands, (...). +09-11-11 If set -e is on for an interactive shell errors in special builtins + now cause the shell to exit. +09-11-11 A bug in which an interrupt handler processed during the read builtin + when IFS did not contain a new line has been fixed. +09-11-09 A bug in which a variable that has been unset in a subshell and then + exported from that subshell does not show up in the environment + has been fixed. +09-11-02 ``,2'' is now a valid numeric constant for locales with + decimal_point=','. +09-11-02 A bug where "return" in .profile did not restore the shell state + has been fixed. +09-10-31 A bug that corrupted saved exit status when pids wrapped around has + been fixed. +09-10-26 A bug in { LANG LC_ALL LC_category } ordering has been fixed in -last. +09-10-16 A bug where notification to libast that the environment has changed + has been fixed. +09-10-12 A bug in which a function loaded in a subshell could leave side + effects in the parent shell has been fixed. +09-10-12 A bug in converting a printf %d operand to a number when the operand + contains multiple subscripts for the same variable has been fixed. +09-10-09 A bug in the handling of the escape character \ in directory prefixes + in command completion has been fixed. +09-10-09 $PATH processing has been changed to delay dir stat() and .paths + lookup until the directory is needed in the path search. +09-09-28 Call the ast setlocale() intercept on unset too. +09-09-24 A bug in which LANG=foo; LC_ALL=foo; unset LC_ALL; did not revert + LC_CTYPE etc. to the LANG value has been fixed. +09-09-17 A bug in which unsetting SVLVL could cause a script invoked by + name without #! to core dump has been fixed. +09-09-16 A bug in which a pipeline in a here-document could hang when the + pipefail option was on has been fixed. +09-09-09 A bug in the processing of line joining in here documents which + occurred when a buffer began with <escape><new-line> has been fixed. +09-09-09 +A leading ; with commands in a brace group or parenthesis group + no longer causes an error. It now is used for the "showme" option. +09-09-09 A bug in which a subshell containing a background process could + block until the background process completed has been fixed. +09-09-04 A bug in handing ${var[sub]}, where var is a nameref has been fixed. +09-09-03 A bug which caused an index array to have the wrong number of elements + when it was converted from a compound variable by adding an another + element has been fixed. +09-09-03 Specifying export for a compound variable now generates an error. +09-09-02 $"..." localizations strings are no longer recognized inside `...`. +09-09-01 A bug in the for loop optimizer in the handling of type static + variables has been fixed. +09-09-01 An error message is not displayed when * and @ are used as subscripts. +09-09-01 Several bugs in the processing for types that included an associative + array of another type has been fixed. +09-09-01 A bug in the tracing of [[ a < b ]] and [[ a > b ]] has been fixed. +09-08-26 The .sh.file variable was not being set for a script that was run + by name and didn't start with #! and this has been fixed. +09-08-25 A bug in which a function called to deeply from command substitution + did not display an error message has been fixed. +09-08-24 +When processing profiles, ksh93 now violates the POSIX standard and + treats &> as a redirection operator similar to bash. +09-08-23 A bug in the handling of the trap on SIGPIPE that could lead to a + memory fault has been fixed. +09-08-21 A bug in the handling of the comma operator in arithmetic expressions + that could cause a core dump on some systems has been fixed. +09-08-20 A bug in which a compound variable containing an array of a type + that doesn't have any elements now expands correctly. +09-08-19 A bug which disabled function tracing inside a function after + a call to another function has been fixed. +09-08-19 A bug in which initializing a compound variable instance to another + compound variable by name has been fixed. +09-08-18 A bug in which compound variable instances could be lost after + an instance that invoked a type method discipline has been fixed. +09-08-18 A bug in which a discipline function for a type applied to an + array instance when invoked in a function ignored the subscript + has been fixed. +09-08-18 A scoping error with variables in arithmetic expression with + type variables when reference with a name reference has been fixed. +09-08-10 Several memory leaks were fixed primarily related to subshells. +09-08-06 A bug in which setting the trap on CHLD to ignore could cause + a script to hang has been fixed. +09-07-08 A bug in the processing of name reference assignments when it + contained pattern expansions with quoting has been fixed. +09-06-22 +The default width for typeset -X has been changed so that there + should be no loss of precision when converting to a string. +09-06-19 A bug in the printing of array elements for binary variables with + printf %B has been fixed. +09-06-19 A bug which caused a core dump with trap DEBUG set with an array + assignment with no elements has been fixed. +09-06-19 A bug with read with typeset -b -Z<num> has been fixed. +09-06-19 Two bugs related to read -b for array variables has been fixed. +09-06-19 A bug with typeset for compound variables containing arrays of + compound variables has been fixed. +09-06-18 A bug in appending a compound variable to a an indexed array of + compound variables has been fixed. +09-06-18 A bug which occurs when appending a compound variable to an indexed + array element has been fixed. +09-06-18 Setting VISUAL to a value other than one ending in vi or emacs will + no longer unset the edit mode. +09-06-17 A bug in typeset -m when moving a local compound variable to a + global compound variable via a name reference has been fixed. +09-06-17 A bug in appending to nodes of an array of compound variables when + addressing them via nameref has been fixed. +09-06-17 A bug in typeset -p var, when var is an array of compound variables + in which the output only contained on array element has been fixed. +09-06-17 The prefix expansion ${!y.@} now works when y is a name + reference to an element of an array. +09-06-16 Traps on signals that are ignored when the shell is invoked + no longer display. Previously they were ignored as required but + would be listed with trap -p. +09-06-12 A bug in vi edit mode in which hitting the up arrow key at the + end of a line longer than 40 characters which caused a core dump + has been fixed. +09-06-11 A bug in which "eval non-builtin &" would create two processes, + one for the & and another for non-builtin has been fixed. +09-06-08 When var is an identifier and is unset, ${var} no longer tries to + run command substitution on the command var. +09-06-08 +Process substitution arguments of the form <(command) can now be + used following the < redirection operator to redirect from command. +09-05-13 A bug in which redirections of the form 2>&1 1>&5 inside command + substitution could cause the command substitution to hang has been + fixed. +09-05-12 To conform with POSIX, the -u option only checks for unset variables + and subscript elements rather than checking for all parameters. +09-05-12 A bug which could cause a core dump when a variable whose name + begins with a . was referenced as part of a name reference inside + a function has been fixed. +09-05-01 A bug that caused a core dump when SIGWINCH was received and + both vi and emacs mode were off has been fixed. +09-04-22 +Default alias compound='typeset -C' added. +09-04-15 A bug that caused ${...;} to hang for large files has been fixed. +09-04-08 A change was made in the -n option which printed out an incorrect + warning with <>. +09-04-07 The emacs edit command M-_ and M_. and the vi command _ was fixed + to handle the case there there is no history file. +09-04-05 A bug in handling new-lines with read -n has been fixed. +09-04-05 The ENV variable defaults the the file named by $HOME/.kshrc rather + then to the string $HOME/.kshrc. +09-03-31 A bug in which a nested command substitution with redirections could + leave a file descriptor open has been fixed. +09-03-24 +ksh now only uses the value of the _ variable on startup if it can + verify that it was set by the invoking process rather than being + inherited by some other ancestor. +09-03-24 +When ksh is invoked without -p and ruid!=euid, and the shell is + compiled without SHOPT_P_UID or ruid<SHOPT_P_UID, the shell now + enables the -p option. The previous version instead set the + euid to the ruid as it does for set +p. +09-03-24 +When SHOPT_P_UID is defined at compile time and the shell is started + without -p and ruid!=euid and ruid>=SHOPT_P_UID then euid is set + to ruid. A bug that did the wrong test (ruid<SHOPT_P_UID) was fixed. +09-03-17 +The sleep(1) builtin now accept and ISO 8601 PnYnMnDTnHnMnS + duration or date(1) compatible date/time operand. +09-03-10 If a variable that was left or right justified or zero-filled was + changed with a typeset statement that was left or right justified + or zero-filled, then the original justification no longer affects + the result. +09-03-10 A bug in the handling of traps when the last command in a script + is a subshell grouping command has been fixed. +09-03-03 A bug in which an expansion of the form ${!prefix@} could generate + an exception after the return from a function has been fixed. +09-02-02 A bug in restricted mode in which the value of ENV could be + changed from within a function has been fixed. +09-02-02 A bug in which an erroneous message indicating that a process + terminated with a coredump has been fixed. +09-02-02 The exit status when exit was called without an argument from + a signal handler was incorrect and has been fixed. +09-02-02 A bug in which a function autoloaded in a subshell could cause + a core dump when the subshell completed has been fixed. +09-02-02 A bug in which 2>&1 inside a command substitution wasn't working + correctly has been fixed. +09-02-02 A bug in the call stack of arithmetic function with 2 args + returning int has been fixed. +09-01-30 A bug in which 'eval print \$0' inside a function was giving the + wrong value for $0 has been fixed. +09-01-28 A bug in which a command substitution could return an exit status + of 127 when the pipefail option is enabled has been fixed. +09-01-26 ksh93 now generates an error message if you attempt to create + a global name reference to a local variable. +09-01-26 +The [[ -v var ]] operator was modified to test for array elements. +09-01-23 +The redirection operator <>; was added. It is similar to <> + except that if the command it is applied to succeeds, the file + is truncated to the offset at the command completion. +09-01-23 The default file descriptor for <> was changed to 1. +09-01-20 A bug in which the exit status specified in an exit trap was + not used when a process terminated with a signal has been fixed. +09-01-19 A bug in which a signal whose default action is to terminate + a process could be ignored when the process is running a sub-shell + has been fixed. +09-01-19 A bug in which sending SIGWINCH to a process that reads from a pipe + could cause a memory fault has been fixed. +09-01-16 +The -R unary operator was added to [[...]] and test to check whether + a variable is a name reference. +09-01-16 +The -v unary operator was added to [[...]] and test to check whether + a variable is set. +09-01-14 The unset built-in was modified to return 0 exit status when + unsetting a variable that was unset to conform with the POSIX + standard. +09-01-14 The unset built-in was modified to continue to unset variables + after encountering a variable that it could not unset to + conform to the POSIX standard. +09-01-14 The parameter expansion ${x+value} no longer expands the value of + the variable x when determining whether x is set or not. +09-01-13 A bug in which background jobs and pipelines that were not waited + for could, in rare instances, cause the shell to go into an infinite + loop or fail has been fixed. +09-01-06 A bug in indexed arrays of compound variables in which referencing + non-existent sub-variable in an arithmetic expression could cause + the sub-variable to be created has been fixed. +09-01-05 A bug in which the \ character did not escape extended regular + expression pattern characters has been fixed. +08-12-24 A bug in which killing the last element of a pipe did not cause + a write to the pipe to generate a SIGPIPE has been fixed. +08-12-19 A bug which could cause command substitution to hang when the + last element of a pipeline in a command substitution was a built-in + and the output was more that PIPE_BUFF. +08-12-18 A bug which occurs when a here documented marker embedded in a + command substitution occurs on a buffer boundary has been fixed. +08-12-17 A bug in the output of typeset -p for variables that had attributes + but did not have a value has been fixed. +08-12-16 A bug in which a name reference to a name reference variable that + references an array element has been fixed. +08-12-16 A bug in which a variable given both the -A and -C attribute along + with an initial assignment didn't work correctly has been fixed. +08-12-10 The [[ -t fd ]] test was fixed to handle fd>9. +08-12-10 A bug where function stack misalignment could cause a bus error + has been fixed. +08-12-09 Command completion was changed to use \ to quote special characters + instead of quoting the argument in single quotes. +08-12-07 A bug in typeset -m which occurred when the target node was an + associative array element has been fixed. +08-12-07 A timing bug on some systems (for example darwin), that could + cause the last process of a pipeline entered interactively to fail + with an "Exec format error" has been fixed. +08-12-04 +SHOPT_BGX enables background job extensions. Noted by "J" in + the version string when enabled. (1) JOBMAX=n limits the number + of concurrent & jobs to n; the n+1 & job will block until a + running background job completes. (2) SIGCHLD traps are queued + so that each completing background job gets its own trap; $! is + set to the job pid and $? is set to the job exit status at the + beginning of the trap. (3) sleep -s added to sleep until the time + expires or until a signal is delivered. +08-12-04 The sign of floating point zero is preserved across arithmetic + function calls. +08-12-04 A bug that caused print(1) to produce garbled stdout/stderr + output has been fixed. +08-12-04 A bug in which printf "%d\n" "'<euro>'" did not output the + numerical value of the EURO symbol, 8354, has been fixed. +08-11-24 + /dev/fd* and /dev/std* redirections are first attempted with + open() to preserve seek semantics; failing that the corresponding + file descriptors are dup()'d. +08-11-20 A bug which could cause a core dump if a function compiled with + shcomp was found has been fixed. +08-11-20 A bug in which jobs were not cleared from the jobs table for + interactive shells when the pipefail option is on has been fixed. +08-11-11 A bug in which a field that was unset in a type definition and later + set for an instance could appear twice when displaying the variable + has been fixed. +08-11-11 A bug in which running a simple command & inside a function would + not return the correct process id has been fixed. +08-11-10 A bug in which the exit status of a command could be lost if the pid + was that of the most recent command substitution that had completed + has been fixed. +08-11-10 The maximum depth for subshells has been increased from 256 to 65536. +08-11-06 A bug which could cause a core dump when the _ reference variable was + used as an embedded type with a compound assignment has been fixed. + +08-10-31 --- Release ksh93t --- +08-10-31 Variable scoping/initialization bugs that could dump core were fixed. +08-10-24 The lexer now accepts all RE characters for patterns prefixed + with a ksh ~(...) option expression. +08-10-24 +For ${var/pat/sub} \0 in sub expands to the text matched by pat. +08-10-18 A bug in array scoping that could dump core has been fixed. +08-10-10 read -n and -N fixed to count characters in multibyte locales. +08-10-10 A bug that mishandled _.array[] type references has been fixed. +08-10-09 +${.sh.version} now contains a concatenation of the following (after + 'Version') denoting compile time features: + A SHOPT_AUDIT + B SHOPT_BASH + L SHOPT_ACCT + M SHOPT_MULTIBYTE +08-10-09 A bug that caused subshell command substitution with redirection + to hang has been fixed. +08-10-08 Output errors, other than to stderr, now result in a diagnostic. +08-10-08 ksh93 now supports types that contain arrays of other types as + members. Earlier versions core dumped in this case. +08-10-05 A bug which caused the shell to emit a syntax error for an arithmetic + statement of the form (( var.name[sub] = value)) has been fixed. +08-10-01 A bug that caused subshell command substitution to hang has + been fixed. +08-09-29 When the -p export option of typeset is used with other options, + only those variables matching the specified options are displayed. +08-09-29 When the shell reads the environment and finds variables that are + not valid shell assignments, it now passes these on to subsequent + commands rather than deleting them. +08-09-29 A bug in the display of compound variables containing an indexed + array of compound variables has been fixed. +08-09-29 A bug in the display of compound variables containing an associative + array with a subscript containing a . in the name has been fixed. +08-09-26 A core dump in the subshell environment restore has been fixed. +08-09-24 $(...) has been fixed to properly set the exit status in $?. +08-09-23 $(<...) with IFS=$'\n\n' has been fixed to retain all but the last + of multiple trailing newlines. +08-09-23 The -p option to typeset when used with other attributes, restricts + the output to variables with the specified attributes. +08-09-22 A bug that sometimes lost the exit status of a job has been fixed. +08-09-21 A bug that retained trailing command substitution newlines in + cases where the command caused the shell to fork has been fixed. +08-09-19 type, whence -v, and command -v were fixed to comply with POSIX + by writing 'not found' diagnostics to the standard error. +08-09-18 test and [...] were fixed to comply with POSIX in the case + of test '(' binop ')' where binop is a valid binary test operator. +08-09-16 +If a method discipline named create is specified when defining a + type, this function will be called when an instance is created. +08-09-15 +The variable _ is now set as a reference to the compound variable + when defining a compound variable or a type. +08-09-10 The shell now prints an error message when the type name specified + for an indexed array subscript is not an enumeration type. +08-09-10 A bug in which a subshell that spawned a background process could + loose output that was produced after the foreground completed + has been fixed. +08-09-10 A timing bug on some systems that could cause coprocesses started by a + subshell to not clean up and prevent other coprocesses has been fixed. +08-09-09 The typeset -m option is now able to rename array elements from + the same array. +08-09-09 The exit status of 2 from the DEBUG trap causes the next command + to be skipped. An exit value of 255 from a DEBUG trap called from + a function causes the function to return. +08-09-08 A bug in which a coprocess created in a subshell that did not + complete when the subshell terminated could prevent a coprocess + from being created in the parent shell has been fixed. +08-09-05 An assignment of the form name1=name2 where name1 and name2 + are both compound variables causes name1 to get a copy of name2. + name1+=name2 causes name2 sub-variables to be appended to name1. +08-09-05 A bug in which unsetting a compound variable did not unset all + the sub-variables has been fixed. +08-09-01 A bug in the subshell cleanup code that could cause SIGSEGV has + been fixed. +06-08-26 +The SHLVL variable which is an environment variable used by bash + and zsh that gets incremented when the shell starts. +08-08-25 +For an indexed array, a negative subscript now refers to offsets + from the end so that -1 refers to the last element. +08-08-24 An alignment error for shorts on 64 bit architectures has been fixed. +08-08-22 If oldvar is a compound variable, typeset -C newvar=oldvar creates + newvar as a copy of oldvar. +08-08-19 +The ALRM signal no longer cause the sleep builtin to terminate. +08-08-13 When used in an arithmetic expression, the .sh.version variable + now produces a number that will be increasing for each release. +08-08-11 A bug in which type instantiation with a compound assignment in + a dot script in which the type is defined has been fixed. +08-08-07 +The -m option has been added to typeset to move or rename a + variable. Not documented yet. +08-08-06 A bug in read when used in a loop when a prompt was specified + when reading from a terminal has been fixed. +08-08-01 A bug with the pipefail option in which a nested pipeline could + cause an asynchronous command to block has been fixed. +08-08-01 A for loop optimizer bug that treats .sh.lineno as an invariant + has been fixed. +08-07-30 A bug in which expanding compound variable that had a get discipline + from with a here document could cause a syntax error has been fixed. +08-07-18 A bug in which a nameref caused a local variable to be created + rather than binding to an existing variable in the global scope + has been fixed. +08-07-17 A bug which occurred when a nameref was created from within a + function that was part of a pipeline has been fixed. +08-07-14 +The compile option SHOPT_STATS was added. With this option the + compound variable .sh.stats keeps usage statistics that could help + with performance tuning. +08-07-10 +The output of set now always uses a single line for each variable. + For array variables, the complete set of values is now displayed. +08-07-09 +The typeset -C option can be used with arrays to indicate that + each element should default to a compound variable. +08-07-08 +The %B format now outputs compound variables and arrays. The + alternate flag # can be used to cause output into a single line. +08-07-03 When the window change signal, WINCH, is received, the current + edit line is redrawn in place. +08-07-01 A bug in the handling of shared variables when inside an embedded + type has been fixed. +08-06-29 A bug in multiline edit mode which occurred when the prompt length + was three characters or less has been fixed. +08-06-23 A bug in which the SIGCLD was not be triggered when background + jobs completed has been fixed. +08-06-23 _KSH_VERSION added as a name reference to .sh.version. +08-06-20 type now outputs 'special builtin' for special builtins. +08-06-19 A couple of bugs in multi-dimensional arrays have been fixed. +08-06-19 A bug in which a syntax error in a dot script could generated + a syntax error in the next subsequent command has been fixed. +08-06-17 Reduced the maximum function call depth to 2048 to avoid exceptions + on some architectures. +08-06-16 A bug in which printf "%B" could generate an exception when the + specified variable was not set has been fixed. +08-06-16 +When typeset -p is followed by variable names, it now displays + the attributes names and values for the specific names. +08-06-14 A bug that could effect the drawing of the screen from multiline + emacs or gmacs mode when walking up the history file has been fixed. +08-06-13 A bug in which a compound variable defined in a subshell could + have side effects into the parent shell has been fixed. +08-06-13 A number of bugs related to using .sh.level to set the stack from + for DEBUG traps have been fixed. +08-06-13 +The .sh.lineno variable has been added. When .sh.level is changed + inside a DEBUG trap, the .sh.lineno contains the calling line number + for the specified stack frame. +08-06-13 The .sh.level variable has been documented and now works. +08-06-11 +The -C option has been added to read for reading compound command + definitions from a file. +08-06-11 +The . command is now permitted inside a compound command definition. + The dot script can contain declaration commands and dot commands. +08-06-09 +Add -C option to typeset so that typeset -C foo, is equivalent + to foo=(). +08-06-09 Added -n warning message for typeset option orderings that are valid + with ksh88 but not valid with ksh93, for example Lx5. +08-06-09 A bug in which the return value for an assignment command containing + a command substitution with that failed was zero when the assignment + contained redirections has been fixed. +08-06-09 A bug in the quoting of $ inside a ERE pattern ~(E)(pattern) + has been fixed. +08-06-06 A bug when processing `` command substitution with the character + sequence \$' has been fixed. +08-06-02 +When defining a type, the typeset -r attribute causes this field + to be required to be specified for each instance of the type and + does not allow a default value. +08-06-02 Several bugs in which compound variables were modified by + subshells have been fixed. +08-05-22 +The ceil function has been added to the math functions. +08-05-21 A bug in which a name reference defined in a function and passed + as an argument to another function could cause an incorrect binding. +08-05-21 A bug in freeing compound variables that are local to functions + has been fixed. +08-05-19 +The array expansions ${array[sub1..sub2]} and ${!array[sub1..sub2]} + to expand to the value (or subscripts) for array between sub1 and + sub2 inclusive. For associative arrays, the range is based on + location in the POSIX locale. The .. must be explicit and cannot + result from an expansion. +08-05-15 The trap on SIGCLD is no longer triggered by the completion of + the foreground job as with ksh88. +08-05-14 A bug in the implementation of the editing feature added on + 07-09-19 in emacs mode has been fixed. +08-05-12 A bug in processing the test built-in with parenthesis has been + fixed. +08-05-12 The unset built-in now returns non-zero when deleting an array + subscript that is not set. +08-05-08 +Changing the value of HISTFILE or HISTSIZE will cause the old + history file to be close and reopened with the new name or size. +08-05-08 When FPATH is changed functions that were found via a path search + will be searched for again. +08-05-08 A parser bug in which reserved words and labels were recognized + inside compound indexed array assignment after a new-line has + been fixed. +08-05-07 A bug in getopts when handling numerical option arguments has + been fixed. +08-05-07 +The typeset -S option was added for variables outside type + definitions to provide a storage class similar to C static + inside a function defined with function name. When outside + type definitions and outside a function, the -S option cause + the specified variable so be unset before the assignment and + before the remaining attributes are supplied. +08-05-07 A bug that affected the cursor movement in multiline mode when + a character was deleted from near the beginning of the any + line other than the first. +08-05-01 In multiline edit mode, the refresh operation will now clear + the remaining portion of the last line. +08-05-01 A bug in computing prompt widths for the edit modes for prompts + with multibyte characters has been fixed. +08-05-01 A bug in the multiline edit mode which could cause the current + line to be displayed incorrectly when moving backwards from third + or higher line to the previous line has been fixed. +08-05-01 A bug in which options set in functions declared with the function + name syntax were carried across into functions invoked by these + functions has been fixed. +08-04-30 A bug which could cause a coprocess to hang when the read end + is a builtin command has been fixed. +08-04-30 +The emacs and vi editors have been modified to handle window + change commands as soon as they happen rather than waiting for + the next command. +08-04-28 A bug in which ${!x} did not expand to x when x was unset has been + fixed. +08-04-27 A bug in which the assignment x=(typeset -a foo=([0]=abc)) created + x.foo as an associative array has been fixed. +08-04-25 A bug in which $# did not report correctly when there were more + than 32K positional parameters has been fixed. +08-04-04 Choose the name _ as the sub-variable that holds type or instance + specific data used by discipline functions. +08-03-27 A bug in which the terminal group was not given back to the parent + shell when the last part of a pipeline was handled by the parent shell + and the other parts of the pipeline complete has been fixed. + The symptom was that the pipeline became uninterruptable. +08-03-25 A bug in restricted mode introduced in ksh93s that caused scripts + that did not use #! to executed in restricted mode has been fixed. +08-03-25 A bug in which the pipefail option did not work for a pipeline + within a pipeline has been fixed. +08-03-24 A bug in which OPTIND was not set correctly in subshells has + been fixed. +08-03-24 A bug which could cause a memory exception when a compound variable + containing an indexed array with only element 0 defined was expanded. +08-03-20 A bug in which ${!var[sub].*} was treated as an error has been fixed. +08-03-20 Associative array assignments of the form ([name]=value ...) + now allow ; as well as space tab and new line to separate elements. +08-03-18 A buffering problem in which standard error was sometimes + not flushed before sleep has been fixed. +08-03-17 A bug in which a signal sent to $$ while in a subshell would be + sent to the subshell rather than the parent has been fixed. +08-03-17 + A --default option added to set(1) to handle set +o POSIX semantics. + set --state added as a long name alias for set +o. +08-03-14 A bug in which using monitor mode from within a script could + cause the terminal group to change has been fixed. +08-03-10 The new ${...} command substitution will treat the trailing } + as a reserved word even if it is not at the beginning of a command, + for example, ${ date }. +08-03-10 If the name of the ENV begins with /./ or ././ then the + /etc/ksh.kshrc file will not be executed on systems that support + this interactive initialization file. +08-03-07 A bug in which ksh -i did not run the ENV file has been fixed. +08-03-07 A bug in which ulimit did not always produce the same output as + ulimit -fS has been fixed. +08-03-04 A bug in multiline mode in emacs and vi mode which could cause the + cursor to be on the wrong line when interrupt was hit has been fixed. +08-03-03 The change made in ksh93s+ on 07-06-18 in which braces became + optional for ${a[i]} inside [[...]] was restored in the case + where the argument can be a pattern. +08-03-03 A bug in which creating a name reference to an associative array + instance would fail when the subscript contained characters [ or + ] has been fixed. +08-02-29 +The redirection operator >; has been added which for non-special + files, generates the output in a temporary file and writes the + specified file only of the command has completed successfully. +08-02-15 A bug in ${var/pattern/string} for patterns of the form ?(*) and +(*) + has bee fixed. +08-02-07 A bug in which test \( ! -e \) produced an error has been fixed. +08-02-14 +The typeset -a option can now optionally be followed by the name + of an enumeration type which allows subscripts to be enumerations. +08-02-14 +The enum builtin which creates enumeration types has been added. +08-02-12 The backoff logic when there are no more processes has been fixed. +08-02-07 The -X option has been added to typeset. The -X option creates + a double precision number that gets displayed using the C99 %a + format. It can be used along with -l for long double. +08-01-31 The -T option to typeset has been added for creating typed + variables. Also the -h and -S options have been added to + typeset that are only applicable when defining a type. +08-01-31 The prefix expansion operator @ has been added. ${@name} + expands to the type of name or yields the attributes. +07-11-15 A bug in the macro expander for multibyte characters in which + part of the character contains a file pattern byte has been fixed. +07-10-03 A bug in which : was not allowed as part of an alias name has been + fixed. +07-09-26 A bug in which appending a compound variable to a compound variable + or to an index array didn't work has been fixed. +07-09-19 In both emacs and vi edit mode, the escape sequence \E[A (usually + cursor up, when the cursor is at the end of the line will fetch + the most recent line starting with the current line. +07-09-18 The value of ${!var} was correct when var was a reference to an + array instance. +07-09-18 The value of ${!var[sub]} was not expanding to var[sub] and this + was fixed. It also fixed ${name} where name is a name reference + to var[sub]. +07-09-18 +It is now legal to create a name reference without an initialization. + It will be bound to a variable on the first assignment. +07-08-30 +A discipline function can be invoked as ${x.foo} and is equivalent + to ${ x.foo;} and can be invoked as x.foo inside ((...)). +07-07-09 A bug in which typeset -a did not list indexed arrays has been + fixed. +07-07-03 +The command substitution ${ command;} has been added. It behaves + like $(command) except that command is executed in the current + shell environment. The ${ must be followed by a blank or an + operator. + +08-04-17 --- Release ksh93s+ --- +08-04-17 A bug in which umask was not being restored correctly after a + subshell has been fixed. +08-04-15 A bug in which sending a STOP signal to a job control shell started + from within a shell function caused cause the invoking shell to + terminate has been fixed. +08-04-11 A bug which caused $(exec > /dev/null) to go into an infinite loop + has been fixed. +08-03-27 A bug in which typeset -LZ was being treated as -RZ has been fixed. +08-03-06 A bug with ksh -P on systems that support the the profile shell, + in which it would exit after running a non-builtin has been fixed. +08-01-31 A bug in which command substitution inside ((...)) could cause + syntax errors or lead to core dumps has been fixed. +08-01-17 A bug in which discipline functions could be deleted when invoked + from a subshell has been fixed. +08-01-17 A bug in which a command substitution consisting only of + assignments was treated as a noop has been fixed. +08-01-17 A bug in which discipline functions invoked from withing a + compound assignment could fail has been fixed. +08-01-16 Incomplete arithmetic assignments, for example ((x += )), now + generate an error message. +08-01-16 A bug in which a set discipline defined for a variable before + an array assignment could cause a core dump has been fixed. +08-01-03 A bug in on some systems in which exit status 0 is incorrectly + returned by a process that catches the SIGCONT signal is stopped + and then continued. +07-12-13 A race condition in which a program that has been stopped and then + continued could loose the exit status has been fixed. +07-12-12 Code to check for file system out of space write errors for all + writes has been added. +07-12-11 A bug in the macro expander for multibyte characters in which + part of the character contains a file pattern byte has been fixed. +07-12-06 A bug in the emacs edit mode when multiline was set that output + a backspace before the newline to the screen has been fixed. +07-12-04 A bug in which using <n>TAB after a variable name listing expansion + in the edit modes would cause the $ to disappear has been fixed. +07-11-28 A bug in which setting IFS to readonly could cause a subsequent + command substitution to fail has been fixed. +07-11-27 A work around for a gcc 4.* C99 "feature" that could cause a job + control shell to go into an infinite loop by adding the volatile + attribute to some auto vars in functions that call setjmp(). +07-11-27 A bug in which the shell could read ahead on a pipe causing the + standard input to be incorrectly positioned has been fixed. +07-11-27 A bug in which compound variable UTF-8 multibyte values were not + expanded or traced properly has been fixed. +07-11-21 A bug where an unbalanced '[' in a command argument was not treated + properly has been fixed. +07-11-15 A bug in which compatibility mode (no long option names) getopts(1) + incorrectly set the value of OPTARG for flag options has been fixed. +07-11-15 A bug in which "hash -- name" treated "--" as an invalid name operand + has been fixed. +07-11-15 typeset now handles "-t -- [-r] [--]" for s5r4 hash(1) compatibility. +07-11-15 A bug in which the umask builtin mis-handled symbolic mode operands + has been fixed. +07-11-15 Bugs in which shell arithmetic and the printf builtin mis-handled the + signs of { -NaN -Inf -0.0 } have been fixed. +07-11-15 +The full { SIGRTMIN SIGRTMIN+1 ... SIGRTMAX-1 SIGRTMAX } range + of signals, determined at runtime, are now supported. +07-11-15 A bug in which creating an index array with only subscript 0 created + only a simple variable has been fixed. +07-11-14 A bug in which appending to an indexed array using the form + name+=([sub]=value) could cause the array to become an associative + array has been fixed. +07-11-14 A bug in which typeset without arguments could coredump if a + variable is declared as in indexed array and has no elements has + been fixed. +07-11-14 A bug in which creating a local SECONDS variable with typeset in + a function could corrupt memory has been fixed. +07-11-14 A bug which could cause a core dump when a script invoked by name + from a function used compound variables has been fixed. +07-11-05 A bug in which printf %d "'AB" did not diagnose unconverted characters + has been fixed. +07-11-05 printf %g "'A" support added for all floating point formats. +07-11-01 A bug in which typeset -f fun did not display the function definition + when invoked in a subshell has been fixed. +07-10-29 The sleep builtin was fixed so that all floating point constants + are valid operands. +07-10-10 A bug in which the locale was not being restored after + LANG=value command has been fixed. +07-09-20 A bug in which a nameref to a compound variable that was local + to the calling function would not expand correctly when displaying + is value has been fixed. +07-09-19 A bug which cause cause a core dump if .sh.edchar returned + 80 characters or more from a keyboard trap has been fixed. +07-09-14 A bug in which could cause a core dump when more than 8 file + descriptors were in use has been fixed. +07-09-10 A bug in which creating a name reference to an instance of + an array when the array name is itself a reference has been fixed. +07-09-10 The file completion code has been modified so that after an = in + any word, each : will be considered a path delimiter. +07-09-06 A bug in which subprocess cleanup could corrupt the malloc() heap + has been fixed. +07-08-26 A bug in which a name reference to an associative array instance + could cause the subscript to be evaluated as an arithmetic expression + has been fixed. +07-08-22 A bug in which the value of an array instance was of a compound + variable was not expanded correctly has been fixed. +07-08-14 A bug which could cause a core dump when a compound assignment was + made to a compound variable element with a typeset -a attribute + has been fixed. +07-08-08 A bug in which a trap ignored in a subshell caused it to be + ignored by the parent has been fixed. +07-08-07 A bug in which the set command would generated erroneous output + for a variable with the -RZ attribute if the variable name had been + passed to a function has been fixed. +07-08-02 A bug in which read x[1] could core dump has been fixed. +07-08-02 A second bug in which after read x[sub] into an associative array + of an element that hasn't been assigned could lead to a core dump + has been fixed. +07-07-31 A bug in which a pipeline that completed correctly could have + an exit status of 127 when pipefail was enabled has been fixed. +07-07-09 +The SHOPT_AUDIT compile option has been added for keyboard logging. +07-06-25 In vi insert mode, ksh no longer emits a backspace character + before the carriage return when the newline is entered. +07-06-25 A bug in which pipefail would cause a command to return 0 + when the pipeline was the last command and the failure happened + on a component other than the last has been fixed. +07-06-25 A bug in the expansion of ${var/pattern/rep} when pattern or rep + contained a left parenthesis in single quotes has been fixed. +07-06-18 The braces for a subscripted variable with ${var[sub]} are now + optional when inside [[...]], ((...)) or as a subscript. +07-05-28 A bug in brace expansion in which single and double quotes did + not treat the comma as a literal character has been fixed. +07-05-24 The -p option of whence now disables -v. +07-05-23 Several bug fixes in compound variables and arrays of arrays + have been made. +07-05-15 A bug in which the %B format of printf was affected by the + locale has been fixed. +07-05-14 A bug in which \ was not removed in the replacement pattern with + ${var/pattern/rep} when it was not followed by \ or a digit has + been fixed. +07-05-10 A bug in which ksh -R file core dumped if no script was specified + has been fixed. it not displays an error message. +07-05-07 Added additional Solaris signals to signal table. +07-04-30 A bug in which a pipeline with command substitution inside a + function could cause a pipeline that invokes this function to + hang when the pipefail option is on has been fixed. +07-04-30 +Added -q to whence. +07-04-18 A small memory leak with each redirection of a non-builtin has + been fixed. +07-03-08 A bug in which set +o output command line options has been fixed. +07-03-08 A bug in which an error in read (for example, an invalid variable + name), could leave the terminal in raw mode has been fixed. +07-03-06 A bug in which read could core dump when specified with an array + variable with a subscript that is an arithmetic expression has + been fixed. +07-03-06 Several serious bugs with the restricted shell were reported and + fixed. +07-03-02 If a job is stopped, and subsequently restarted with a CONT + signal and exits normally, ksh93 was incorrectly exiting with + the exit status of the stop signal number. +07-02-26 +M-^L added to emacs mode to clear the screen. +07-02-26 A bug in which setting a variable readonly in a subshell would + cause an unset error when the subshell completed has been fixed. +07-02-19 +The format with printf uses the new = flag to center the output. +07-02-19 A bug in which ksh93 did not allow multibyte characters in + identifier names has been fixed. +07-02-19 A bug introduced in ksh93 that causes global compound variable + definitions inside functions to exit with "no parent" has been fixed. +07-02-19 A bug in which using compound commands in process redirection + arguments would give syntax errors <(...) and >(...) has been fixed. +07-01-29 A bug which caused the shell to core dump which can occur when a + built-in exits without closing files that it opens has been fixed. +07-01-26 A bug in which ~(E) in patterns containing \ that are not inside () + has been fixed. + +06-12-29 --- Release ksh93s --- +06-12-29 A bug in which the value of IFS could be changed after a command + substitution has been fixed. +06-12-22 +/dev/(tcp|udp|sctp)/HOST/SEVRICE now handles IPv6 addresses on + systems that provide getaddrinfo(3). +06-12-19 +A -v option was added to read. With this option the value of + the first variable name argument will become the default value + when read from a terminal device. +06-11-20 A bug in which "${foo[@]:1}}" expands a null argument (instead of + no argument), when foo[0] is not empty has been fixed. +06-11-16 The discipline functions have been modified to allow each subscript + to act independently. Currently the discipline function will not + be called when called from a discipline function of the same variable. +06-11-14 A bug which could cause a core dump if a file descriptor for + an internal file was closed from with a subshell has been fixed. +06-10-30 +The redirections <# pattern, and <## pattern have been added. + Both seek forward to the beginning of the next line that contains + the pattern. The <## form copies the skipped portion to standard + output. +06-10-26 +On systems that support stream control transport, the virtual file + name /dev/sctp/host/port can now be used to establish connections. +06-10-26 +The printf modifier # when used with d produces units in thousands + with a single letter suffix added. The modifier # when used with + the i specification provides units of 1024 with a two letter suffix. +06-10-24 The value of $! is now set to the process id of a job put + into the background with the bg command as required by POSIX. +06-10-23 A bug in which the value of $! was affected by a background + job started from a subshell has been fixed. +06-10-23 A bug in ${var:offset:len} in multibyte locales has been fixed. +06-10-15 +The remaining math functions from C99 were added for any system + that supports them. +06-10-13 The klockwork.com software detected a few coding errors that + have been fixed. +06-10-12 A bug when skipping over `...` with ${x:=`...`} when x is set + has been fixed. +06-10-11 A bug in process floating constants produced by the %a format + of printf has been fixed. +06-10-06 A bug in which IFS was not being restored correctly in some + cases after a subshell has been fixed. +06-10-06 A bug in which pipefail was not detecting some failures in + pipelines with 3 or more states has been fixed. +06-10-03 A bug in the processing of >(...) with builtins which could + cause the builtin to hang has been fixed. +06-10-03 A bug in the for loop optimizer which causes >(...) process + substitution to be ignored has been fixed. +06-09-17 +The -a option was added to typeset for indexed arrays. This + is only needed when using the ([subscript]=value ...) form. +06-09-06 +The showme option was added. Each simple command not beginning + with a redirection and not occurring with in the while, until, if, + select condition can be preceded by a semi-colon which will + be ignored when showme is off. When showme is on, any command + preceded by a colon will be traced but not executed. +06-08-16 +As a new feature, a leading ~(N) on a pattern has no effect + except when used for file expansion. In this case if not + matches are found, the pattern is replaced by nothing rather + than itself. +06-08-11 A bug in the expansion of ${.sh.match[i]:${#.shmatch[i]}} has + been fixed. +06-08-10 +The read builtin options -n and -N have been modified to treat + the size as characters rather than bytes unless storing into a + binary (typeset -B) variable. +06-07-27 +When the here document operator << is followed directly by a # + rather than a -, the first line of the here-document determines + how much whitespace is removed for each line. +06-07-26 A bug in the C-shell history (enabled with set -H) in which the + history event !$ was not processed has been fixed. +06-07-21 A bug on some systems in which assigning PATH on a command line + would not take effect has been fixed. +06-07-20 Add ksh93 and rksh93 as allowable names for ksh binaries. +06-07-20 Removed the SHOPT_OO compilation option which was only partially + implemented. +06-07-20 The ability to use egrep, grep, and fgrep expressions within + shell patterns has been documented. +06-07-17 A bug with arithmetic command expressions for locales in which + the comma is a thousands separator has been fixed. +06-07-13 +The default HISTSIZE was increased from 128 to 512. +06-07-13 A multibyte problem with locales that use shift codes has been fixed. +06-06-23 A number of bug fixes for command, file, and variable completion + have been mode. +06-06-20 +Floating point division by zero now yields the constant Inf or -Inf + and floating functions with invalid arguments yield NaN. +06-06-20 +The floating point constants Inf and NaN can be used in arithmetic + expressions. +06-06-20 +The functions isinf(), isnan(), tanhl() have been added for + arithmetic expressions. +06-06-13 Internal change to use ordering for variables instead of hashing + to speed up prefix matching. +06-06-13 A window between fork/exec in which a signal could get lost + and cause a program to hang has been eliminated +06-06-13 A bug in edit completion with quoted strings has been fixed. +06-06-07 The restricted options can now be enabled by set as well as on + the command line. Once set, it can not be disabled. +06-06-04 Modified built-in binding so that for systems for which /bin + and /usr/bin are the same, a builtin bound to /bin will get + selected when either /bin or /usr/bin is scanned. +06-06-04 +Added literal-next character processing for emacs/gmacs mode. + This change is not compatible with earlier versions of ksh93 + and ksh88 when the stty lnext is control-v. The sequence + escape-control-v will display the shell version. +06-05-31 +Modified emacs and vi mode so that entering a TAB after a partial + TAB completion, generates a listing of possible completions. + After the second TAB, a number followed by a TAB will perform + the completion with the corresponding item. +06-05-19 +Modified arithmetic so that conversions to strings default to + the maximum number of precision digits. +06-05-16 Bug fixes for multibyte locales. +06-05-10 The =~ operator was added to [[...]] and [[ string ~= ERE ]] + is equivalent to [[ string == ~(E)ERE ]]. +06-04-25 A bug in the vi edit mode which could cause the shell to core dump + when switching from emacs mode. +06-04-17 A bug in which using LANG or LC_ in assignment lists with builtins + did not restore the localed correctly has been fixed. +06-04-04 A bug in which discipline functions could not be added to variables + whose names started with .sh has been fixed. +06-03-28 +The -s option to typeset was added to modify -i to indicate short + integers. +06-03-28 A bug in which variables assignment lists before functions + defined with function name were not passed on the functions + invoked by this function has been fixed. +06-03-28 A bug in which name references defined within a function defined + with function name could not be used with compound variables has + been fixed. +06-03-27 A bug in which read <&p (print >&p) would cause the coprocess input + (output) pipe to close before reading from (after writing to) + it has been fixed. +06-02-28 A bug in which stopping a job created with the hist builtin command + would create a job that could not be restarted has been fixed. + +06-01-24 --- Release ksh93r --- +06-01-24 A bug in which running commands with standard output closed would + not work as expected has been fixed. +06-01-23 A bug in which print -u<n> could fail when file descriptor <n> was + open for writing has been fixed. +06-01-19 The ?: arithmetic operator fixed to work when the operation after + the colon was an assignment. +05-12-24 A bug which could lead to a core dump when elements of a compound + variable were array elements, i.e. foo=(bar=(1 2)), has been fixed. +05-12-13 An arithmetic bug in which x+=y+=z was not working has been fixed. +05-12-13 An arithmetic bug in which x||y was returning x when x was non-zero + rather than 1 has been fixed. +05-12-07 +The aliases for integer and float have been changed to use attributes + -li and -lE to handle long long and long double types. +05-12-07 +The histexpand (-H) option has been added which allows C-shell + style history expansions using the history character !. +05-12-07 +The multiline option was added which changes that way the edit + modes handle lines longer than the window width. Instead of + horizontal scrolling, multiple lines on the screen are used. +05-12-05 The whence builtin now returns an absolute pathname when the + command is found in the current directory. +05-11-29 A bug which caused ksh -c '[[ ! ((' to core dump rather than + report a syntax error has been fixed. +05-11-29 A bug when reading fixed length records into typeset -b variables + which caused a zero byte to terminate the value has been fixed. +05-11-22 +The ability to seek to an offset within a file has been added + with the new I/O redirection operators, <# and >#. Currently, + these redirection operators must be followed by ((expr)) + but in a future release, it should be able to used to seek forward + to the specified shell pattern. In addition $(n<#) expands to the + current byte offset for file descriptor n. +05-11-22 +The .sh.match array variable is now set after each [[ ... ]] + pattern match. Previously it was only set for substring matches. +05-10-17 A bug in which the library path variable could be prefixed + with a directory when a .path file was not encountered in + the directory of the executable has been fixed. +05-09-15 A for/while loop optimizer bug in which $OPTIND was not + correctly expanded has been fixed. +05-09-05 A bug in which a history command that invoked a history + command could go into an infinite loop has been fixed. +05-08-31 +In the case that IFS contains to adjacent new-lines so that + new-line is not treated as a space delimiter, only a single + new-line is deleted at the end of a command substitution. +05-08-19 +When a tilde substitution expands to the / directory and is + followed by a /, it is replaced by the empty string. +05-08-16 A bug in which n<&m did not synchronize m has been fixed. +05-08-16 A bug in which process substitution ( <() and >() ) was not + working within for and while loops has been fixed. +05-07-24 A bug in which the pattern ~(E)(foo|bar) was treated as a syntax + error has been fixed. +05-07-24 A bug in completion with <n>=, where n was the one of the + previous selection choices has been fixed. +05-07-21 A bug with multibyte input when no edit mode was specified which + caused the input line to shift left/right has been fixed. +05-06-24 A race condition which could cause the exit status to get lost + on some fast systems has been fixed. +05-06-21 A bug in which nested patterns of the form {m,n}(pat) would cause + syntax errors has been fixed. +05-06-21 A bug in the macro expander has been fixed which could cause a + syntax error for an expansion of the form ${x-$(...)} when + x is set and the command substitution contained certain strings. +05-06-08 +On systems for which echo does not do System V style \ expansions, + the -e option was added to enable these expansion. +05-06-08 A bug in which ${var op pattern} to not work when inside an + arithmetic expression has been fixed. +05-05-23 +An extension to shell patterns that allows matching of nested + groups while skipping over quoted strings has been added. +05-05-18 A bug in which the line number for errors was not correct for + functions loaded from FPATH has been fixed. +05-04-18 A bug in which the exit status $? is not set when a trap triggered + by the [[...]] command is executed has been fixed. +05-04-08 +Redirection operators can be directly preceded with {varname} + with no intervening space, where varname is a variable name which + allows the shell to select a file descriptor > 10 and store it + into varname. +05-04-08 +SHOPT_CMDLIB_BLTIN=1 now includes <cmdlist.h> generated table. +05-04-07 +[[ -o ?option ]] is true if "option" is a supported option. +05-04-05 A bug in handling file completion with spaces in the names + has been fixed. +05-03-25 +The SIGWINCH signal is caught by default to keeps the LINES and + COLUMNS variables in sync with the actual window size. +05-03-25 +Building ksh with SHOPT_REMOTE=1 causes ksh to set --rc if stdin is + a socket (presumably part of a remote shell invocation.) +05-03-25 +Building ksh with SHOPT_SYSRC=1 causes interactive ksh to source + /etc/ksh.kshrc (if it exists) before sourcing the $ENV file. +05-03-25 +{first..last[..incr][%fmt]} sequences added to brace expansions + when braceexpand is enabled. +05-03-03 A bug where a SIGCHLD interrupt could cause a fifo open to fail has + been fixed. +05-02-25 A bug in which a builtin command run in the background could + keep a file descriptor open which could cause a foreground + process to hang has been fixed. +05-02-24 A bug where builtin library commands (e.g., date and TZ) failed to + detect environment variable changes has been fixed. +05-02-22 +The read builtin and word splitting are now consistent with respect + to IFS -- both treat IFS as field delimiters. +05-02-22 +The read builtin no longer strips off trailing delimiters that + are not space characters when there are fewer variables than fields. +05-02-17 A builtin bug on systems where dlsym(libcmd) returns link-time + bindings has been fixed. +05-02-12 A bug in which the lib_init() function for .paths BUILTIN_LIB + libraries was not called has been fixed. +05-02-06 A bug on some systems in which moving the write end of a co-process + to a numbered file descriptor could cause it to close has been fixed. +05-02-06 A bug in the vi-edit mode in which the character under the cursor + was not deleted in some cases with the d% directive has been fixed. +05-02-06 A bug where external builtin stdout/stderr redirection corrupted + stdout has been fixed. +05-02-04 A bug where times formatting assumed CLK_TCK==60 has been fixed. + +05-01-11 --- Release ksh93q --- +05-01-11 A bug in the integral divide by zero check has been fixed. +05-01-11 +The -l option has been added to read /etc/profile and + $HOME/.profile, if they exist, before the first command. +05-01-11 An argument parsing bug that caused `kill -s x -- n' to fail has + been fixed. +05-01-11 +The .paths file, introduced in ksh93m, which can appear in + any directory in PATH, now allows a line of the form 'BUILTIN_LIB=.' + When a command is searched for this directory, and the full path + matches the path of the built-in version of the command (listed + by the 'builtin' command) then the built-in version of the command + is used. When ksh is built with SHOPT_CMDLIB_DIR=1 then all libcmd + functions become builtins with the '/opt/ast/bin/' directory prefix. +05-01-10 A bug in which a nameref to a compound name caused a core dump has + been fixed. +05-01-09 A bug in which some SIGCHLD interrupts (from child processes exiting) + caused a fatal print/echo error diagnostic has been fixed. +04-12-24 A bug in which some SIGCHLD interrupts (from child processes exiting) + corrupted the internal process/job list, sometimes causing the shell + to hang, has been fixed. +04-12-01 A bug in which typeset -Fn truncated less than n digits for large + numbers has been fixed. +04-11-25 A bug in which standard error could be closed after a redirection + to /dev/stderr has been fixed. +04-11-17 A bug in which an expansion of the form ${array[@]:3} could expand + to ${array[0]} when ${array[3]} was not set has been fixed. +04-10-22 +The -E or -orc command line option reads ${ENV-$HOME/.kshrc} file. +04-10-22 +`-o foo' equivalent to `+o nofoo', `-o nobar' equivalent to `+o bar'. + `--foo' equivalent to `-o foo', `--nofoo' equivalent to `+o foo' +04-10-05 +The .paths file, introduced in ksh93m, which can appear in + any directory in PATH, now allows a line of the form + 'BUILTIN_LIB=libname'. When a command is searched for this directory, + the shared library named by libname will first be searched for a + built-in version of the command. +04-09-03 <<< here documents now handle quotes in the word token correctly. +04-08-08 +The maximum size for read -n and and read -N was increased from + 4095 to 32M. +04-08-04 +printf %q was modified so that if an no operand was supplied, no + no output would be generated rather than a quoted empty string. +04-08-01 +The -n and -N options of the read builtin has been modified + when reading variables with the binary attribute so that the + data is stored directly rather than through assignment. +04-08-01 +The shcomp command has been modified to process alias commands + under some conditions. +04-07-31 +The .sh.match variable added in ksh93l, now works like other + indexed arrays. +04-07-08 A loop optimizer bug which occurs when typeset is used in + a for or while loop inside a function has been fixed. +04-06-24 +The number of subexpressions in a pattern was increased to 64 + from the current number of 20. +04-06-17 +The -t option to read was modified to allow seconds to be + specified as any arithmetic expression rather than just + an integral number of seconds, for example even -t 'sin(.5)' + is now valid. +04-06-16 Two small memory leak problems were fixed. +04-06-15 A bug in ${var/pattern/"string"} which occurred when string + contained pattern matching characters has been fixed. +04-05-08 printf $'%d\n' produced an erroneous error message and has + been fixed. +04-05-24 A bug in which an associative array without any elements could + cause a core dump when a script with an associative array with + the same name was declared in a script invoked by name has + been fixed. +04-05-11 A bug in which an exec statement could close the script that + is being processed in a script that is run by name causing + a failure has been fixed. +04-04-28 +If the first character of assignment to an integer variable was 0, + the variable had been treated as unsigned. This behavior was + undocumented and has been removed. +04-04-05 A bug in which the positioning of standard input could be incorrect + after reading from standard input from a subshell has been fixed. +04-03-30 A bug in the for loop optimizer which in rare cases could cause + memory corruption has been fixed. +04-03-29 +The preset alias source='command .' has been added. +04-03-29 A bug introduced in ksh93p on some systems in which invoked by + name with #! on the first line would not get the signals handling + initialized correctly has been fixed. +04-03-29 A bug introduced in ksh93p in which a HUP signal received by + a shell that is a session group leader was not passed down to + its children has been fixed. + +04-02-28 --- Release ksh93p --- +04-02-28 +The ability to apply an append discipline to any variable has + been added. +04-02-14 A bug in which the exportall option (set -a) would cause incorrect + results for arrays has been fixed. +04-02-02 A bug in which an exported array would pass more than + the first element to a script invoked by name has been fixed. +04-02-02 A bug on some systems in which name=value pairs preceding a script + invoked by name was not getting passed to the script has been fixed. +04-01-20 A bug in which an unset discipline function could cause a core + dump on some systems has been fixed. +04-01-12 A bug in which a continue or break called outside a loop from + inside a function defined with name() syntax could affect + the invoking function has been fixed. +04-01-08 If a command name begins with ~, only filename completion will be + attempted rather than pathname completion using the builtin editors. +04-01-08 A bug in the vi edit mode in which the wrong repeat count on + multiple word replacements with the . directive has been fixed. +04-01-06 Backspace characters are now handled correctly in prompt strings. +04-01-06 +The getopts builtin has been modified to accept numerical + arguments of size long long on systems that support this. +04-01-06 A bug in which unsetting all elements of an associative array + would cause it to be treated as an indexed array has been fixed. +03-12-15 A bug in which a quoted string ending with an unescaped $ would + delete the ending $ in certain cases has been fixed. +03-12-05 A bug in which the shell could hang when set -x tracing a command + when an invalid multibyte character is encountered has been fixed. +03-12-05 On some systems, if the KEYBD trap is set, then commands that use + the meta key were not processed until return was hit. This + has been fixed. +03-12-05 A problem which occurred when the login shell was not a group + leader that could cause it to fail has been fixed. +03-12-05 A problem in which a shell could core dump after receiving a signal + that should cause it to terminate while it was in the process + of acquiring more space has been fixed. +03-12-05 +If ENV is not specified, the shell will default to $HOME/.kshrc + for interactive shells. +03-11-21 A bug introduced in ksh93o in which the DEBUG trap could get + disabled after it triggered has been fixed. +03-11-04 A bug in which using arithmetic prefix operators ++ or -- on a + non-lvalue could cause a core dump has been fixed. +03-11-04 A bug in which leading zeros were stripped from variable + expansions within arithmetic computation to avoid being treated + as octal constants when they should not have, has been fixed. +03-10-08 A bug introduced in ksh93o in which a large here document inside + a function definition could get corrupted has been fixed. +03-09-22 A bug in which the .get discipline function was not being + called when a string variable was implicitly referenced from + within a numerical expression has been fixed. +03-09-22 A bug in which a script without a leading #! could get executed + by /bin/sh rather than the current shell on some systems has + been fixed. +03-09-12 +To improve conformance with ksh88, leading zeros will be ignored + when getting the numerical value of a string variable so that + they will not be treated as octal constants. +03-09-03 +The builtin kill command now processes obsolete invocations + such as kill -1 -pid. +03-09-02 The restriction on modifying FPATH in a restricted shell (sh -r) + has been documented. +03-09-02 +The restricted shell (sh -r) has been modified to disallow + executing command -p. +03-08-07 A bug in which the KEYBD trap was not being invoked when + characters with the 8th bit set has been fixed. +03-08-02 A parser bug introduced in ksh93o which caused the character + after () in a Posix function definition to be skipped + when reading from standard input has been fixed. +03-08-01 A bug in which "${foo#pattern}(x)" treated (x) as if it were + part of the pattern has been fixed. +03-08-01 +The command -x option has been modified so that any trailing + arguments that do expand to a single word will be included + on each invocation, so that commands like command -x mv * dir + work as expected. + +03-07-20 --- Release ksh93o+ --- +03-07-20 A bug in which could cause memory corruption when a posix + function invoked another one has been fixed. +03-07-15 A bug in which a file descriptor>2 could be closed before + executing a script has been fixed. +03-07-15 A parsing error for <() and >() process substitutions inside + command substitution has been fixed. +03-07-15 A parsing error for patterns of the form {...}(...) when + used inside ${...} has been fixed. +03-07-15 An error in which expanding an indexed array inside a compound + variable could cause a core dump has been fixed. +03-07-15 A bug in which on rare occasions a job completion interrupt + could cause to core dump has been fixed. +03-06-26 A bug in which process substitution embedded within command + substitution would generate a syntax error has been fixed. +03-96-23 A bug in which ${@:offset:len} could core dump when there + were no arguments has been fixed. +03-96-23 A bug in which ${X[@]:offset:len} could core dump when X + was unset has been fixed. +03-06-22 +The -x option was added to the command builtin. If this + option is on, and the number of arguments would exceed ARG_MAX, + the command will be invoked multiple times with a subset of + the arguments. For example, with alias grep='command -x grep, + any number of arguments can be specified. +03-06-14 A bug in which could cause a core dump on some systems with + vi and emacs editors with the MULTIBYTE option has been fixed. +03-06-06 A bug in which the shell could core dump when a script was + run from its directory, and the script name a symlink to a file + beginning with .., has been fixed. +03-06-05 A bug in which the shell could core dump when a child process + that it is unaware of terminates while it is calling malloc() + has been fixed. +03-06-02 +An option named globstar (set -G) has been added. When enabled, + during pathname expansion, any component that consists only of ** is + matches all files and any number of directory levels. +03-05-30 A bug in which the PATH search could give incorrect results when + run from directory foo and PATH contained .:foo:xxx has been fixed. +03-05-29 +Some changes were made to the code that displays the prompt in edit + mode to better handle escape sequences in the prompt. +03-05-27 I added = to the list of characters that mark the beginning of + a word for edit completion so that filenames in assignments + can be completed. +03-05-20 A bug in which read -N could hang on some systems when reading + from a terminal or a pipe has been fixed. +03-05-19 A bug in which the output of uname from a command substitution + would go to the standard output of the invoking command when + uname was invoked with a non-standard option has been fixed. +03-05-19 A job control bug which would cause the shell to exit because + it hadn't take back the terminal has been fixed. The bug + could occur when running a function that contained a pipeline + whose last element was a function. +03-05-19 A job control timing bug introduced in ksh93o on some systems + which could cause a pipeline to hang if the first component + completed quickly has been fixed. +03-05-13 +The read builtin has been modified so that the builtin editors + will not overwrite output from a previous incomplete line. +03-05-13 A bug in which the name of an identifier could have the string + .sh. prefixed to it after expanding a variable whose name begins + with .sh. has been fixed. +03-05-13 A bug in the expansion of $var for compound variables in which + some elements would not be output when the name was a prefix + of another name in the compound variable has been fixed. +03-05-08 The last item in the ksh93o release on 03-01-02 has been + altered slightly to preserve the leading 0's when the + preceding character is a digit. Thus, with typeset -LZ3 x=10, + $(( 1$x)) will be 1010 whereas $(( $x) will be 10. +03-04-25 A bug in which if x is a name reference, then nameref y=x.foo + did not follow x has been fixed. + +03-03-18 --- Release ksh93o --- +03-03-18 +A -N unary operator was added to test and [[...]] which returns + true if the file exists and the file has been modified since it + was last read. +03-03-18 +The TIMEFORMAT variable was added to control the format for + the time compound command. The formatting description is + described in the man page. +03-03-06 +A -N n option was added to read which causes exactly n bytes + to be read unlike -n n which causes at most n bytes to be read. +03-03-03 +Three new shell variables were added. The variable .sh.file + stores the full pathname of the file that the current command + was found in. The variable .sh.fun names the current function + that is running. The variable .sh.subshell contains the depth + of the current subshell or command substitution. +03-03-03 +When the DEBUG trap is executed, the current command line after + expansions is placed in the variable .sh.command. The trap + is also now triggered before each iteration of a for, select, + and case command and before each assignment and redirection. +03-02-28 +Function definitions are no longer stored in the history file so + that set -o nolog no longer has any meaning. +03-02-28 +All function definitions can be displayed with typeset -f not + just those stored in the history file. In addition, typeset +f + displays the function name followed by a comment containing the + line number and the path name for the file that defined this function. +03-02-28 A bug in which the value of $LINENO was not correct when executing + command contained inside mult-line command substitutions has been + fixed. +03-02-19 +Since some existing ksh88 scripts use the undocumented and + unintended ability to insert a : in front of the % and # parameter + expansion operators, ksh93 was modified to accept :% as equivalent + to % and :# as equivalent to # with ${name op word}. +03-02-14 A bug which could cause a core dump when reading from standard + error when standard error was a pty has been fixed. +03-02-14 +The shell arithmetic was modified to use long double on systems + that provide this data type. +03-02-09 A bug in which a function located in the first directory in FPATH + would not be found when the last component of PATH was . and the + current directory was one of the directories in PATH has been fixed. +03-02-07 +The trap and kill builtin commands now accept a leading SIG prefix + on the signal names as documented. +03-02-05 A bug in the expansion of ${var/$pattern}, when pattern contained + \[ has been fixed. +03-02-05 A bug in which .sh.match[n], n>0, was not being set for substring + matches with % and %% has been fixed. +03-01-15 A bug in which getopts did not work for numerical arguments specified + as n#var in the getopts string has been fixed. +03-01-09 A bug in which using ${.sh.match} multiple times could lead to + a memory exception has been fixed. +03-01-06 A bug in the expansion of ${var/pattern/$string} in the case that + $string contains \digit has been fixed. +03-01-02 +A -P option was added for systems such as Solaris 8 that support + profile shell. +03-01-02 For backward compatibility with ksh88, arithmetic expansion + with ((...)) and let has been modified so that if x is a zero-filled + variable, $x will not be treated as an octal constant. + +02-12-05 --- Release ksh93n+ --- +02-11-30 A bug that can show up in evaluating arithmetic statements that + are in an autoloaded function when the function is autoload from + another function has been fixed. +02-11-30 An optimization bug in which an expansion of the form ${!name.@}, + which occurred inside a for or a while loop, when name is a name + reference, has been fixed. +02-11-18 A bug in which modifying array variables in a subshell could leave + side effects in the parent shell environment has been fixed. +02-11-18 A memory leak when unsetting an associative array has been fixed. +02-11-14 +The code to display compound objects was rewritten to make + it easier for runtime extensions to reuse this code. +02-11-14 +A change was made to allow runtime builtins to be notified when + a signal is received so that cleanup can be performed. +02-10-31 +User applications can now trap the ALRM signal. Previously, + the ALRM signal was used internally and could not be used + by applications. +02-10-31 A bug in which signals received while reading from a coprocess + for which traps were set was not handled correctly has been fixed. +02-10-31 A bug in which a file opened with exec inside a subshell could + be closed before the subshell completed has been fixed. +02-10-21 A bug in which setting PATH or FPATH inside a function might not + take effect has been fixed. +02-10-21 A bug which could cause a core dump when a local SECONDS variable + is defined in a function has been fixed. +02-10-15 A bug in which the associate array name operator ${!array[@]} + could return the same name multiple times has been fixed. +02-10-15 A bug in which the zero'th element of an associative array was + not getting set when an assignment was made without a subscript + specified has been fixed. + +02-09-30 --- Release ksh93n --- +02-09-30 +The maximum indexed array size was increased to 16Megs. +02-09-30 A bug which could cause a core dump when changing attributes + of associative array has been fixed. +02-09-30 A bug in which exporting an array variable would not export the + 0-th element has been fixed. +02-09-30 A bug in which an array assignment of the form a=($a ...) would unset + 'a' before the right hand side was evaluated has been fixed. +02-09-27 A bug in which the error message for ${var?message} when var was + null or unset did not contain the variable name var has been fixed. +02-09-27 A bug in which closing file descriptors 0 through 2 could + cause a subsequent here document to fail has been fixed. +02-09-14 A bug in whence which occurs when the specified name contained + a / has been fixed. +02-09-14 A bug in the parser for strings of the form name$((expr))=value + has been fixed. +02-09-14 A for loop optimization bug in which the number of elements in + an array was treated as an invariant has been fixed. +02-09-09 A bug in which redirection or closing of a file descriptor between + 3 and 9 could cause a subsequent here document to fail has been + fixed. +02-09-09 A bug in which a background job was not removed from the job list + when a subshell completed has been fixed, for example (prog&). +02-09-03 A bug in which an assignment of the form name=(integer x=3) + could be interpreted as an array assignment rather than a + compound variable assignment has been fixed. +02-08-19 A command completion bug which occurred on file systems that + are case insensitive has been fixed. +02-08-19 A bug which could lead to an exception on some systems (for + example FREEBSD) which occurred when setting PATH has been fixed. +02-08-11 A bug in arithmetic rounding in which a value input as a decimal + string would output as a rounded version of the string has + been fixed. +02-08-11 A bug in which the last character could be deleted from shell + traces and from whence when called from a multibyte locale + has been fixed. +02-08-01 A bug which could cause a core dump to occur when a shell script + is executed while a coprocess is running that has closed the + output pipe has been fixed. +02-08-01 A bug in which command completion in multibyte mode could + corrupt memory for long command lines has been fixed. + +02-06-17 --- Release ksh93n- --- +02-06-17 A bug in which user defined macros could cause a core dump in + with MULTIBYTE mode has been fixed. +02-06-17 A bug in which printf format specifiers of the form %2$s were causing + a core dump has been fixed. +02-06-17 A bug in which setting stty to noecho mode did not prevent the + echoing of characters by ksh when emacs or viraw mode + was enabled has been fixed. +02-06-17 A bug in which background job completion could cause the sleep + builtin to terminate prematurely has been fixed. +02-06-17 A bug in which the shell could core dump if getopts was called + when the OPTIND variable contained a negative value has been fixed. +02-06-10 +The edit mode prompt has been modified to handle escape sequences. +02-06-10 A bug which occurred for interactive shells in which the builtin + cat command was used in command substitution on a file whose + size was larger than PIPE_BUF has been fixed. +02-06-10 A bug in which the trap on ERR was not being processed when + set inside a function has been fixed. +02-06-07 A bug in which function definitions could cause the history count + to be decremented by one (and even become negative) has been fixed. +02-06-05 A bug in read in which share mode could be enabled has been fixed. +02-05-28 A bug which could occur when the last command of a script was + a case statement and the action selected ended in ;& instead of ;; + has been fixed. +02-05-23 A bug with unary + introduced in ksh93k has been fixed. +02-05-07 A bug in substitutions of the form ${var/pattern/string} in which + a backslash was inserted in the replacement string when it contained + a special pattern character has been fixed. +02-05-01 A bug in the emacs edit mode which occurred in versions compiled + for multibyte character sets which occurred when a repeated search + was requested after a long line had been returned for the previous + search has been fixed. +02-04-02 +vi and emacs edit modes were modified so that tab completion is + disabled when invoked from the read built-in. + +02-03-26 --- Release ksh93m+ --- +02-03-26 A bug in which \ was not handled correctly when used in file + expansion has been fixed. +02-02-18 A bug in which lines beginning with a # were deleted from here + documents when the here-document delimiter was followed by + a comment has been fixed. +02-12-06 An optimization bug in which ${!x[@]) was treated as invariant in + a for loop has been fixed. +02-02-06 A bug in which the ERR trap is not cleared for a script invoked + by name from within a function has been fixed. +02-01-08 A bug in which a shell script executed from within a subshell + could cause this script to have an invalid pointer leading + to a memory fault has been fixed. +02-01-07 +Added here documents of the form <<< word (as per zsh) which + is equivalent to << delim\nword\ndelim. +02-01-07 A bug in which the first word of a compound assignment, + x=(word ...), was treated as a reserved word has been fixed. +02-01-07 A bug in the handling of \ when noglob was enabled and a + substitution of the form ${word op pattern} occurred in the + same word has been fixed. +02-01-07 +A compilation option, CMDLIB_BLTIN in the file OPTION, has + been added. When this options is set, all commands implemented + in libcmd become shell builtin commands by default. +02-01-07 A bug in which builtin foo, where foo is already a builtin + would result in the builtin foo getting removed has been fixed. +02-01-07 A bug which the shell executed a command found in the current + directory when PATH have no valid directories has been fixed. +01-11-28 The value of $? was not being set when called with exit. +01-11-28 If the last command was of the form (...) and a trap on EXIT or + ERR was set, and the command inside () modified the trap, then + the original trap wasn't executed. +01-11-26 +The value for 0 is now preceded by the base number when + the base was not 10. +01-11-26 +The default has compilation mode has been changes so that + viraw mode will always be on. + +01-10-31 --- Release ksh93m --- +01-10-31 A for loop optimizer bug for subshells contained withing for + loops has been fixed. +01-10-16 typeset without arguments no longer outputs variable names + that do not have any attributes that are set. +01-10-16 A bug introduced in ksh93l in which assignments specified with + the exec built-in were not being expanded properly has been + fixed. +01-10-11 An optimization bug in which ${!x) was treated as invariant in + a for loop has been fixed. +01-10-11 Unsigned integer variables in bases other than 10 are printed now + expand in that base with the base prefix. +01-10-10 A number of typos in the self generating man pages for shell + built-ins have been fixed. +01-10-04 The self generated man pages for hist and fc were not working + correctly and have been fixed. +01-10-03 Yet another optimizer bug in which shell patterns were + treated as invariants has been fixed. +01-09-27 Two bugs relating to multibyte history searches and to find + have been fixed. +01-09-27 A bug introduced in ksh93k in which the PATH searching was + not restored after running a command with an assignment list + has been fixed. +01-09-26 A bug in which a zero filled field was treated as octal when + converted to integer has been fixed. +01-09-26 Yet another bug in the optimization of for loops related to + recursive functions with break or continue statements has been fixed. +01-09-25 +The exponentiation operator ** was added to the shell arithmetic + evaluation. It has higher precedence than * and is left + associative. +01-09-25 The code was modified to use the ast multibyte macros + and functions for handing multibyte locales. +01-09-25 +The expansion ${parameter:offset:length} now handles negative + offsets which cause offsets to be measured from the end. +01-09-25 Some spelling errors in the documentation were corrected. +01-09-24 +The /dev/tcp/host/port and /dev/udp/host/port now allow + the ports to be specified by service name. +01-09-24 +The change staring with ksh93g in which the the appropriate + library path variable is prepended with a corresponding library + directory has been modified. With the new method, only the + library path defined in the file named .paths in the directory + where the executable is found will be modified. See the + man page for more details. +01-09-23 +The .fpath file (see ksh93h) is no longer looked for in each + directory on the path to locate function directories. The + file named .paths is used instead. +01-09-23 A bug in which IFS was not being restored after being changed in + a subshell has been fixed. +01-09-16 +With the vi and emacs edit modes, after a list of command + or functions is generated with = or M-= respectively, + any element from the list can be pasted on the command line + by preceding the = or M-= with a numeric parameter specifying + the position on the list. +01-09-16 A bug in ksh93l caused command completion not to find aliases + and functions. Command listing from the edit mode was presented + in reverse order. This has been fixed. +01-09-13 Another bug in the optimization of for loops related to subshells + when traps were set has been fixed. +01-09-07 A change in ksh93l caused brace expansion to stop working + and this has been fixed. +01-09-04 A bug introduced in ksh93k in which an arithmetic statement + within a function that used name references did not follow the + reference has been fixed. +01-09-04 A bug introduced in ksh93l in which export -p did not prefix + each export with the word export has been fixed. +01-08-29 A bug in multibyte input which occurred when a partial multibyte + character was received has been fixed. +01-08-29 A bug introduced in ksh93l which could cause a core dump + when an assignment list containing PATH is specified inside + command substitution has been fixed. +01-08-09 Another bug in the optimization of for loops in ksh93l caused + errors in recursive functions using local variables that + contained for loops has been fixed. +01-07-27 A bug in which IFS would be unset after a command substitution + inside a here document has been fixed. +01-07-26 To conform to the POSIX standard, if you invoked ksh name, + and name does not contain a /, it will first try to run + one in the current directory whether it is executable or not + before doing a path search for an executable script. Earlier + versions first checked for an executable script using the + PATH variable. +01-07-23 A bug in which unset -f invoked in a subshell could unset a + function defined in the parent has been fixed. +01-07-16 A bug in the optimization of for loops in ksh93l caused + name references to be treated as invariants has been fixed. +01-07-09 A bug in which a discipline function applied to a local variable + could cause a shell exception has been fixed. Discipline + functions can only be specified for global variables. + +01-06-18 --- Release ksh93l --- +01-06-18 A bug in assigning integers larger than can be represented as + long integers to floating point variables has been fixed. +01-06-18 A bug in the handling of unsigned integers (typeset -ui) has + been fixed. +01-06-04 The evaluation of the PS1 prompt no longer effects the value + of the $? variable. +01-06-01 A small memory leak from subshells has been fixed. +01-05-22 A bug in which attributes for variables that did not have + values would be lost after a subshell has been fixed. +01-05-22 +The %R format has been added to convert a shell pattern into + an extended regular expression. +01-05-22 +The escape sequences \e, \cX, \C[.collating-element.], and + \x{hex} have been added to ASCII-C strings and to printf format + strings. +01-05-20 +Patterns of the form {n}(pattern) and {m,n}(pattern) are now + recognized. The first form matches exactly n of pattern whereas, + the second form matches from m to n instances of pattern. +01-05-20 +The shell allows *-(pattern), +-(pattern), ?-(pattern), + {m,n}-(pattern}, and @-(pattern) to cause the minimal + match of pattern to be selected whenever possible rather + than the maximal (greedy) match. +01-05-20 +The character class [:word:] has been added to patterns. + The word class is the union of [:alnum:] and the character _. +01-05-20 +Inside (...) pattern groups, the \ character is now treated + specially even when in an enclosing character class. The + sequences, \w, \d, \s are equivalent to the character classes + word, digit, and space respectively. The sequences \W, \D, + and \S are their complement sets. +01-05-20 +The shell now recognizes pattern groups of the form + ~(options:pattern) where options or :pattern can be omitted. + Options use the letters + and - to enable and disable options + respectively. The option letters g (greedy), i (ignore case) + are used to cause maximal matching and to cause case + insensitive matching respectively. If :pattern is also + specified, these options are only in effect while this + pattern is being processed. Otherwise, these options remain + in effect until the end of the pattern group that they are contained + in or until another ~(...) is encountered. These pattern groups + are not counted with respect to group numbering. +01-05-14 When edit completion, expansion, or listing occurs in the + middle of a quoted string, the leading quote is ignored when + performing the completion, expansion, or listing. +01-05-14 A small memory leak from subshells has been fixed. +01-05-10 A bug in which open files were not restored after a subshell + that had used exec to replace a file has been fixed. +01-05-10 +Redirection to a null file name now generates an error message. +01-05-09 The shell now rejects some invalid parameter substitutions that + were previously processed in undefined ways. +01-05-09 A bug in which the output of select was not flushed before the + read when input did not come from the terminal has been fixed. +01-05-08 A bug in which job ids would not be freed for interactive shells + when subshells ran built-ins in the background has been fixed. +01-05-08 +The FPATH variable now requires an explicit . to cause the + current directory to be treated as a function directory. +01-05-08 A bug in read -n when echo mode was disabled has been fixed. +01-05-07 A bug in which function definitions could be listed as part + of the history has been fixed. +01-04-30 +This release uses a new and often much faster pattern matcher than + earlier releases. +01-04-30 +An optimizer now eliminates invariant parameter expansions from + for while and until loops. +01-04-30 +The variable .sh.match is set after each pattern match (# % or /) + in a variable substitution. The variable .sh.match is an + indexed array with element 0 being the complete match. + The array is only valid until the next subsequent pattern + match or until the value of the variable changes which ever + comes first. +01-04-30 +A self generating man page has been added to shcomp. Also, + shcomp now stops compiling when it finds an exit or exec + command and copies the remainder so that it can be used + for standard input. +01-04-30 +The shcomp command was modified so that it can work in an + EBCIDIC environment and that binary scripts are portable + across environments. +01-04-30 A bug in the handling of a trailing : in PATH has been fixed. +01-04-30 A bug in which the builtin version of a command would get invoked + even though the full pathname for the command was specified + has been fixed. +01-04-30 A bug in which read would loose the last character when + reading the last line of a file that did not contain a new-line + character has been fixed. +01-04-23 A bug on some systems in which in vi mode the end of file + character and end of line character could be swapped has + been fixed. +01-04-23 A bug on some systems in which invoking a shell script that + did not have execute permission could set the exit value to + 127 rather than 126 has been fixed. +01-04-20 A bug in which read -n from a pipe would block if fewer than + n characters was received has been fixed. +01-04-09 A bug in which invalid patterns, for example, ) by itself, + was not treated as a string has been fixed so that if i=')', + then [[ $i == $i ]] is true. +01-04-09 +The shell arithmetic now interprets C character constants. +01-04-09 A bug in which a non-zero return from a function defined + with the function reserved word did not trigger the ERR + trap or exit with set -e has been fixed. +01-04-02 A bug on some systems, in which characters above 127 were + not displayed correctly in vi or emacs edit mode has been fixed. +01-04-02 A bug on some systems, introduced in the 'k' point release, in + which the erase character in viraw mode was moving the cursor + to the left without erasing the character has been fixed. +01-04-02 On some systems the wcwith() function was returning a wrong + value for characters and caused characters to be displayed + incorrectly from the shell edit modes. A work around for + this problem has been added. +01-03-26 A bug in which valid scripts could produce syntax errors + when run with locales that considered characters such as "'" + to be space characters has been fixed. +01-03-20 A bug in which an syntax error in an arithmetic expression + entered interactively could cause the shell to go into + an infinite loop outputting the error message has been fixed. +01-03-10 +ksh93 accepts -l as a synonym for -L in test on systems for + which /bin/test -l tests for symbolic links. +01-03-10 A bug in parsing scripts in which { and } are used in place of + in and esac in case statements embedded in compound commands + has been fixed. Use of { and } for in and esac is obsolete. +01-03-06 A bug in which an argument of the form foo=bar was not + being passed correctly to a traced function whose name + was foo has been fixed. +01-03-02 Using $(trap -p name) did not print the name of the current + trap setting for trap name. +01-02-26 Exported floating point variables gave incorrect results + when passing them to ksh88. This has been fixed. +01-02-25 A race condition in which a coprocess which completed too quickly + would not allow subsequent coprocesses to start has been fixed. +01-02-25 The 'g' format specifier is now handled by printf. It had + inadvertently been omitted. +01-02-20 The + was not being displayed during an execution trace + with the += assignment operator. +01-02-19 The error message which occurs when the interpreter name + defined on the #! line does not exist is more informative. +01-02-19 A bug in which $0 would not be set correctly when a + script with #! was invoked by full pathname from the + directory of the script has been fixed. +01-02-19 A shell script did not always pick up tty mode changes + made by external commands such as stty which could + effect the behavior of read. +01-02-19 The -u, -g, and -k unary tests did not give the correct + results when used with negation and this has been fixed. + +01-02-05 --- Release ksh93k+ --- +01-02-05 The sequence \<newline> inside $'...' was not incrementing + the line count and this has been fixed. +01-02-05 +Modified expansion of "${@-}" so that if no arguments are set + it results in null string rather than nothing. +01-02-02 memory leak problem with local variables in functions fixed. +01-01-25 +allow arithmetic expressions with float%int and treat them + as ((int)float)%int rather than as an error. +01-01-19 read -n1 was not working and has been fixed. +01-01-17 +ksh now handles the case in which a here document in command + substitution $() is terminated by the trailing ). Previously, + a new-line was needed at the end of the delimiter word. +01-01-02 A bug in which a KEYBD trap would cause a multi-line token + to be processed incorrectly has been fixed. +00-12-10 +Arithmetic integer constants can now have L and U suffices. +00-12-10 A bug in the processing of arithmetic expressions with compound + variables when the -n option is on has been fixed. +00-12-08 A bug in M-f and M-b from emacs mode has been fixed. This + bug only occurs when ksh93 is compiled without MULTIBYTE enabled. +00-11-29 A bug in which jobs -p would yield 0 for background + jobs run in a script has been fixed. +00-11-21 A bug in integer arrays in which the number of elements is + incorrect when the ++ operator is applied to a non-existing + element has been fixed. For example, integer x; ((x[3]++)). +00-11-20 A timing bug in which the shell could reset the terminal + group to the wrong value in the case that the a new process + changes the terminal group during startup has been fixed. + +00-10-27 --- Release ksh93k --- +00-10-27 Using tab for completion now works only when applied + after a non-blank character at the end of the current line. + In other case a tab is inserted. +00-10-27 A bug in the emacs edit mode for ^X^E has been fixed. + The ^X^E sequence is supposed to invoke the full editor + on the current command. +00-10-18 A bug in which expansions of the form ${var//pattern/string} + did not work correctly when pattern was '/' or "/" has + been fixed. +00-10-18 +The output format for indexed arrays in compound variables + has been modified so that it can be used as input. +00-10-18 Assignments with name references (typeset -n) will now + implicitly unreference an existing name reference. +00-10-17 A bug the += append operator when a single array element + is appended to a variable that is not an array has been fixed. +00-10-16 A bug in which the SIGCONT signal was being sent to + each process will kill -0 or kill -n 0 has been fixed. +00-10-12 +The arithmetic evaluation portion has been rewritten to + perform a number of optimizations. +00-10-10 A bug in which name prefix matching ${!name.*} was not + checking name to see if it was a name reference has been fixed. +00-09-26 A bug in the multibyte version in which the width of for + non-printing characters was not correct has been fixed. +00-09-12 +Made changes to get multibyte editing work on UWIN for windows +00-09-12 A bug in which multibyte characters would be displayed incorrectly + has been fixed. +00-08-08 Removed build dependency on iswprint() and iswalph(). +00-07-20 In some cases the read builtin would read more than a single + line from a pipe on standard input and therefore leave the seek + position in the wrong location. +00-07-05 +If the directory / is on the path, a / will not be inserted + between the directory and the file name during path searching + to avoid searching // for systems that treat this specially. +00-06-26 A bug in which on rare occasions wait could return before all + jobs have completed has been fixed. +00-06-21 A bug in which backspace did not work correctly during the + R replace directive in vi-mode has been fixed. +00-06-12 +Added variable name completion/expansion/listing to the set of + completions. Variable name completions begin with $ or "$ followed + by a letter. +00-05-09 --- Release ksh93j --- +00-05-09 Modified command substitution to avoid using /tmp files when + run on read-only file systems. +00-04-17 +Modified printf to handle '%..Xc' and '%..Xs' options where X + is not an alpha character. Previous versions core dumped with this. +00-04-10 +Changes to multibyte editing code were made to use standard + ISO C functions rather than methods devised before the standard. +00-04-09 Add %H options to printf to output strings with <"'&\t> properly + converted for use in HTML and XML documents. +00-04-07 +Modified getopts builtin to handle \f...\f in usage string + by invoking specified function. +00-04-04 Added self generating man pages for bg, fc, fg, disown, jobs, + hist, let, ., and ulimit. +00-03-30 +The append operator += has been added and can be used + for all assignments, strings, arrays, and compound variables. +00-03-30 +Code was modified in several places to support automatic + generation of C locale dictionaries. +00-03-28 A bug in which the set and trap commands invoked with --name + type arguments would terminate the invoking script has + been fixed. +00-03-27 A bug in which the library path variable was not updated + correctly on some systems as described in the 'g' point + release has been fixed. +00-03-07 printf now returns a non-zero exit status when one of + its arguments cannot be converted to the given type. +00-03-05 The return value and error message for a command that + was found on the path but was not executable was set + incorrectly. +00-03-05 A prototype for ioctl() was removed from the vi edit mode. + +00-01-28 --- Release ksh93i --- +00-01-28 +Most of the built-in commands and ksh itself are now + self documenting. Running command --man will produce + screen output. Running command --html produces the + man page in html format. +00-01-28 +The getopts builtin can process command description + strings to produce man pages. +00-01-28 A bug in which a script could terminate when getopts + encountered an error when invoked inside a function + has been fixed. +00-01-28 When a symbolic link was specified as the name of + the script to invoke by name, the value of $0 was + set to the real file name rather than the link name + in some cases and this has been fixed. +00-01-28 A bug in which the precision given as an argument + to printf was not working has been fixed. + +99-03-31 --- Release ksh93h --- +99-03-31 +The PATH search algorithm has been modified to look + for a file named .fpath in each bin directory and if + found, to search for functions in this directory if + it cannot find the command in that directory. +99-03-31 +When performing pathname expansion, the shell checks + to see whether each directory it reads is case sensitive + or not, and performs the matching accordingly. +99-03-31 +The %T format for printing formatted date/time. +99-03-31 +The emacs and vi modes now handle arrow keys when + they use standard ANSI escape sequences. +99-03-31 +The TAB key can be used for completion in emacs and viraw mode. +99-03-31 A bug in setting .sh.editchar during the KEYBD trap + for the MULTIBYTE option was fixed in release ksh93h. +99-03-31 A bug in shcomp for compilation of unary operators with [[...]] + has been fixed. +99-03-31 A bug in which the value of $? was changed when executing + a keyboard trap has been fixed. +99-03-31 The handling of SIGCHLD has been changed so that the + trap is not triggered while executing trap commands + to avoid recursive trap calls. +99-03-31 A bug in which a local variable in a function declared readonly + would generated an error when the function went out of + scope has been fixed. +99-03-31 A bug in which \<new_line> entered from the keyboard + with the KEYBD trap enabled has been fixed. +99-03-31 The error message for a misplaced ((, for example print ((3), + was often garbled and has been fixed. +99-03-31 A bug in the KEYBD trap in which escape sequences of the form + <ESC>[#~ were not being handled as a unit has been fixed. +99-03-31 A bug in which ksh would consider expressions like [[ (a) ]] + as syntax errors has been fixed. +99-03-31 A function defined as foo() without a function body + was not reported as a syntax error. +99-03-31 A bug in which ksh could run out of file descriptors when + a stream was repeatedly opened with exec and read from + has been fixed. + +98-04-30 --- Release ksh93g --- +98-04-30 +The pipefail option has been added. With pipefail + enabled, a pipeline will not complete until all + commands are complete, and the return value will + be that of the last command to fail, or zero if + all complete successfully. +98-04-30 +The name-value pair library uses the cdt library rather + than the hash library. This change should be transparent + to applications. +98-04-30 +On the U/WIN version for Window 95 and Windows NT, + when a directory beginning with a letter followed by + a colon is given to cd, it is assumed to be an absolute + directory +98-04-30 +When an executable is found on a given path, + the appropriate library path variable is prepended + with a corresponding library directory. +98-04-30 A bug in which a name reference could be created to + itself and later cause the shell to get into an infinite + loop has been fixed. +98-04-30 A bug in shcomp relating to compound variables was fixed. +98-04-30 A bug introduced in ksh93e in which leading 0's in -Z + fields caused the value to be treated as octal for arithmetic + evaluation has been fixed. +98-04-30 A bug when a name reference with a shorter name than + the variable it references was the subject of a compound + assignment has been fixed. +98-04-30 A bug which in which assignment to array variables in + a subshell could effect the parent shell has been + fixed. +98-04-30 read name?prompt was putting a 0 byte at the end of the + prompt on standard error. +98-04-30 A bug in [[ string1 > string2 ]] when ksh was run with -x + has been fixed. +98-04-30 A bug in which the escape character was not processed + correctly inside {...} when brace expansion is enabled + has been fixed, for example {\$foo}. +98-04-30 A bug in line continuation in here-documents has been + fixed. +98-04-30 The default base when not specified with typeset -i is + 10 in accordance with the documentation. Previously, + the value was determined by the first assignment. +98-04-30 A parsing bug in which a # preceded alphanumeric + characters inside a command substitution caused + a syntax error to be reported has been fixed. +98-04-30 A bug in which a decimal constant represented as 10#ddd + where ddd was more than five digits generated a syntax + error has been fixed. +98-04-30 A bug in here document expansion in which ${...} expansions + were split across buffer boundaries has been fixed. +98-04-30 +The sh_fun() function now takes third argument which + is an argument list for the invoked discipline function + or built-in. +98-04-30 +A callback function can be installed which will give + notification of file duplications and file closes. +98-04-30 When ksh is compiled on systems that do not use fork() + current option settings where not propagated to sub-shells. + +97-06-30 --- Release ksh93f --- +97-06-30 +Hostnames in addition to host addresses can be given in + /dev/tcp/host/port virtual file names. +97-06-30 File name completion and expansion now quotes special + characters in file names from both emacs and vi edit modes. +97-06-30 An empty for list behave like a for list with null expansions. + It produces a warning message with sh -n. +97-06-30 +The code has been modified to work with EBCDIC as well as ASCII. +97-06-30 A bug which would cause the secondary prompt to be + displayed when a user entered a literal carriage + return has been fixed. +97-06-30 A bug which caused ksh read -s name to core dump was + fixed. +97-06-30 A bug with the expansion of \} and \] inside double + quoted strings that also contained variable expansions + has been fixed +97-06-30 Changes in the ksh93e point release caused autoload + functions invoked from within command substitution + to fail. This has been fixed. +97-06-30 A bug in the processing of here-documents that could + prevent variable substitution to occur after $(...) command + substitution for long here documents has been fixed. +97-06-30 A bug caused by a race condition that could cause SIGTERM + to be ignored by a child process has been fixed. +97-06-30 A bug which prevented the startup of a coprocess immediately + after killing a running coprocess has been fixed. +97-06-30 ulimit foobar, where foobar is not an arithmetic + expression, now gives an error message as it did with ksh88 + instead of setting the file size limit to 0. +97-06-30 A bug which could cause an interactive shell to terminate when + the last process of a pipeline was a POSIX function was fixed. +97-06-30 A bug which could cause command substitution of a shell script + to core dump has been fixed. +97-06-30 A security hole was fixed in suid_exec. +97-06-30 Arithmetic functions such as pow() that take more than + one argument, did not work if arguments other than the + first contained parenthesized sub-expression. +97-06-30 The error message from a script containing an incomplete + arithmetic expression has been corrected. +97-06-30 A bug which caused a core dump on some machines when + the value of a name reference contained a positional + parameter and the name reference was not defined inside + a function has been fixed. +97-06-30 Arithmetic expressions now correctly handle hexadecimal + constants. +97-06-30 A bug in which integer variables could be expanded + with a leading 10# when declared with typeset -i + multiple times has been corrected. +97-06-30 A bug in which IFS wasn't correctly restored when + set within command substitution has been fixed. +97-06-30 The _ character is now considered as part of a word + with the M-f and M-b emacs directives as it was in ksh88. +97-06-30 A bug in brace pattern expansions that caused expressions + such as {foo\,bar,bam} to expand incorrectly have been fixed. + + +96-07-31 --- Release ksh93e --- +96-07-31 +The math functions, atan2, hypot, fmod, and pow were added. +96-07-31 +When a shared library is loaded, if the function lib_init() + is defined in the library, it is invoked the first time that + the library is loaded with builtin -f library. +96-07-31 The k-shell information abstraction database option, KIA, + has been revamped. +96-07-31 Empty command substitutions of the form $() now work. + whence -v foo now gives the correct result after calling + builtin -d foo. +96-07-31 A bug in right to left arithmetic assignment for which + the arithmetic expression (( y = x = 1.5 )) did not + yield 1 for y when x was declared typeset -i was fixed. +96-07-31 printf has been fixed to handle format containing \0 + and/or \0145 correctly. In addition, characters following + %b in the format string are no longer displayed when + the operand contains \c. +96-07-31 A bug in printf that could cause the %E format to + produce unnormalized results has been fixed. +96-07-31 A bug which causes some arithmetic expressions to be + incorrectly evaluated as integer expressions rather + that floating point has been fixed. +96-07-31 Functions defined inside a subshell no longer remain + defined when the subshell completes. +96-07-31 The error message from sh -c ';echo foo' has been + corrected. +96-07-31 The format for umask -S has been changed to agree + with the specification in the POSIX standard. +96-07-31 A bug that caused side effects in subscript evaluation + when tracing was enabled for subscripts using ++ or -- + has been fixed. +96-07-31 To conform to the Posix standard getopts has been changed + so that the option char is set to ? when it returns with + a non-zero exit status. +96-07-31 The handling of \} inside ${name...} has been fixed so + that the \ quotes the }. +96-07-31 A bug that caused the read builtin to resume execution + after processing a trap has been fixed. +96-07-31 [[ -s file ]] has been fixed so that if file is open + by ksh, it is flushed first. +96-07-31 In some cases attributes and sizes for non exported + variables weren't being reset before running a script. +96-07-31 The value of TMOUT was affected by changes make to + it in a subshell. +96-07-31 The jobs command did not reflect changes make by + sending the CONT signal to a command. +96-07-31 The error message for ksh -o unknown was incorrect. +96-07-31 Functions invoked as name=value name, did not use + values from the calling scope when evaluating value. +96-07-31 A bug in which the shell would reexecute previously + executed code when a shell script or coprocess was + run in the background has been fixed. +96-07-31 A bug in which an empty here-document would leave + a file descriptor open has been fixed. +96-07-31 A bug in which $(set -A array ...) would leave a + side effect has been fixed. +96-07-31 A discipline function for a global variable defined + within a function defined with the function keyword, + incorrectly created a local variable of the same name + and applied the discipline to it. + +95-08-28 --- Release ksh93d --- +95-08-28 The \ character was not handled correctly in replacement + patterns with ${x/pattern/replace}. +95-08-28 A bug with read in which the line did not end with + a new-line has been fixed. +95-08-28 A bug in file name generation which sometimes + appended a . for filenames that ended in / has + been fixed. +95-08-28 +If a process is waited for after a status has + been returned by a previous wait, wait now + returns 127. +95-08-28 A bug with hist (fc) -e which prevented a command + to re-executed after it had been edited has been fixed. +95-08-28 A bug which prevented quoting from removing the meaning + of unary test operators has been fixed. +95-08-28 A bug with typeahead and KEYBOARD traps with the + MULTIBYTE option set has been fixed. +95-08-28 +Builtin functions can take a third argument which is + a void*. +95-08-28 The nv_scan() function can restrict the scope of a walk + to the top scope. + +95-04-31 --- Release ksh93c --- +95-04-31 The expansion of "$@" was incorrect when $1 was the null + string. +95-04-31 A bug which could incorrectly report a syntax error in + a backquoted expression when a $ was preceded by \\ + has been fixed. +95-04-31 A bug which prevented the shell from exiting after + reporting an error when failing to open a script + has been fixed. +95-04-31 A bug that could lead to memory corruption when a + large here document that required parameter or command + substitution was expanded has been fixed. +95-04-31 A bug that could cause a core dump on some systems + after ksh detected an error when reading a function + has been fixed. +95-04-31 A bug which could cause a coprocess to hang when + reading from a process that has terminated has been fixed. +95-04-31 A bug which caused a script to terminate when set -e + was on and the first command of and && or || list + failed has been fixed. +95-04-31 A bug with here documents inside $(...) when the delimiter + word is an identifier has been fixed. +95-04-31 A bug which caused $0 to display the wrong value when + a script was invoked as an argument to the . command + and the eval command has been fixed. +95-04-31 A bug that could cause the built-in sleep to hang + has been fixed. +95-04-31 A bug introduces in 12/28/93b which caused the backslash + to be removed when it was followed by digit inside double + quotes in some instances has been fixed. +95-04-31 A bug which could cause a core dump if ksh was invoked with + standard input closed has been fixed. +95-04-31 A bug which could cause a core dump if typeset -A was + specified for an existing variable has been fixed. +95-04-31 Variables that were unset but had attributes such as readonly + and export were not listed with readonly, export and typeset. +95-04-31 Several problems with signals have been fixed. +95-04-31 A bug which prevented ulimit -t from working has been fixed. + Also, a bug in which failed ulimits could cause a core dump + has also been fixed. +95-04-31 A bug in expansion of the form ${name/#pattern/string} and + ${name/%pattern/string} has been fixed. +95-04-31 A bug which caused read -r on a line that contained only + blanks to get a non-null value has been fixed. +95-04-31 A bug introduced in the 'a' point release in which + ${x='\\'} expanded to \ when x was unset has been fixed. +95-04-31 A bug which prevented a trap on EXIT from being executed + when the last command in a script was a function invocation + has been fixed. +95-04-31 A bug which caused an interactive shell ignore input when + standard error was redirected to a file with exec, + and then restored with exec 2>&1 has been fixed. +95-04-31 An interactive shell turns on monitor mode even when + standard error has been redirected to a file. +95-04-31 A bug which could cause standard input to be incorrectly + positioned for the last command of a script has been fixed. +95-04-31 A bug in the edit modes which allowed walking back in + the history file for more than HISTSIZE commands has + been fixed. +95-04-31 A bug which could cause a core dump if variable TMPDIR was + changed between two command substitutions has been fixed. +95-04-31. A bug which prevented a trap on EXIT from being cleared + has been fixed. +95-04-31 A bug fixed for the v directive in vi MULTIBYTE has been + fixed. +95-04-31 Code to for IFS handling of multibyte characters has + been added. +95-04-31 The displaying of multibyte strings in export, readonly, + typeset, and execution traces has been fixed. +95-04-31 Variables inside functions are now statically scoped. + The previous behavior was never documented. +95-04-31 Variables inside functions are now statically scoped. + The previous behavior was never documented. +95-04-31 A few changes have been made to the name-value library + that affect built-ins that use disciplines. The + changes allow disciplines to be shared by variables + and should make it possible to add new disciplines + without recompilation. +95-04-31 +The name-value library interface has undergone significant + change for this revision. See the new nval.3 man page. + +94-12-31 --- Release ksh93b --- +94-12-31 +Variables inside functions are now statically scoped. + The previous behavior was never documented. +94-12-31 +If IFS contains two consecutive identical characters belonging + to the [:space:] class, then this character is treated as + a non-space delimiter so that each instance will delimit + a field. For example, IFS=$'\t\t' will cause two consecutive + tabs to delimit a null field. +94-12-31 +The getopts command has a -a name option that specifies a + name that will be used for usage messages. +94-12-31 A bug which caused unset RANDOM to dump core has been + fixed. +94-12-31 A bug which prevented return for terminating a profile + or ENV file has been fixed. +94-12-31 A bug which prevented standard input from being + directed to /dev/null for background jobs when + monitor mode was turned off has been fixed. +94-12-31 Statements of the form typeset -options var[expr]=value + did not perform substitutions on expr as expected. +94-12-31 A bug which prevented the shell from sending a HUP + signal to some background jobs that were not disowned + has been fixed. +94-12-31 A bug which allowed a script to trap signals that are + ignored at the time that the shell was invoked by exec + has been fixed. +94-12-31 A bug which could cause a core dump when a discipline + function was unset within a discipline was fixed. +94-12-31 The typeset builtin now accepts a first argument of + + or - for compatibility with ksh88. +94-12-31 For compatibility with ksh88, the results of expansions + of command arguments will treat the extended character + match characters ()|& as ordinary characters. +94-12-31 A bug which caused read to fail on a file that was + open for read/write with <> when the first operation + was print or printf has been fixed. +94-12-31 When a job is suspended, it is put on the top of + the job list as required by the POSIX standard. +94-12-31 The value of OPTARG when an option that required + an argument but didn't have one was incorrect in the + case the the option string began with a :. +94-12-31 A bug which caused the terminal to get into a bad + state with some KEYBD traps in vi-mode has been fixed. +94-12-31 A bug which caused an invalid trap to cause a script + to terminate, rather than just return an error, has + been fixed. +94-12-31 Backreferencing sub-expressions in patterns and replacement + strings now works. +94-12-31 A bug in chmod which caused the -R option to fail has + been fixed. +94-12-31 +More signal names have been added for Solaris + +94-06-30 --- Release ksh93a --- +94-06-30 An expansion bug which causes portions of a word after + a $((...)) expansion that contains a nested $var expansion + to be lost has been fixed. +94-06-30 A bug that caused a core dump when a script that did not + have PWD set and did a cd inside command substitution + has been fixed. +94-06-30 A bug which caused a core dump on some machines when + the LANG variable was assigned to has been fixed. +94-06-30 A bug which incorrectly handled set disciplines that + performed arithmetic evaluation when the discipline + was called from the arithmetic evaluator has been fixed. +94-06-30 A bug caused by an EXIT trap inside a function that + was executed in a subshell was fixed. +94-06-30 If foo is a function, and not a program, then command foo + now reports that foo isn't found rather than invoking foo. +94-06-30 The previous version incorrectly listed -A as an + invocation option. The -A option is only for set. +94-06-30 A bug was fixed which caused ksh to loop when execution trace + was enabled and the PS4 prompt required command substitution. +94-06-30 A bug which could cause the job control switch character + to be disabled when a script that enabled monitor mode + terminated was fixed. +94-06-30 A bug in the macro expansion global replacement operator //, + when the pattern began with a [ or +( has been fixed. +94-06-30 A bug which prevented ~ expansion from occurring when + it was terminated with a colon inside an assignment + has been fixed. +94-06-30 A bug in the dot command which prevented autoload functions + from working has been fixed. +94-06-30 A bug which caused a variable to be unset if the + its value were expanded inside a set discipline has + been fixed. +94-06-30 Whence -a now longer reports that a defined function + is undefined. +94-06-30 A bug on some systems in which $0 would be incorrect + in scripts invoked by name has been fixed. +94-06-30 Here documents with an empty body now work. +94-06-30 A bug which disabled argument passing and resetting + of options for a script invoked by name inside a + function has been fixed. +94-06-30 A bug in which an EXIT trap set the caller of a function + would be executed if a command called inside a function + was not found has been fixed. +94-06-30 A bug which allowed a script to trap signals that are + ignored at the time that the shell was invoked has + been fixed. +94-06-30 A bug which caused 2<&1- when applied to a shell built-in + to leave standard input closed has been fixed. +94-06-30 A bug which caused the shell to incorrectly parse + $() command substitutions with nested case statements + has been fixed. + |