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-10-03-05 --- Release ksh93t+ ---
-10-03-05 A varibale unset memory leak has been fixed and tests/leaks.sh
- has been added to verify the fix.
-10-03-04 Documentation, comment, and disgnostic 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 foo 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 --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 interpretted 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.
-