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authorreed <reed@pkgsrc.org>2008-11-23 03:26:14 +0000
committerreed <reed@pkgsrc.org>2008-11-23 03:26:14 +0000
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downloadpkgsrc-21c8bbfa75f5b42a5208a92d99d3f01b42e57f18.tar.gz
Update shells/osh
Add new maintainer. Thank you J.A. The following is from PR #40006: I would like to maintain this package if that is acceptable. Thus, I added myself as MAINTAINER. Changed files: DESCR, Makefile, PLIST, distinfo Changes between osh-20080629 and osh-20081122 which affect the osh package on the various pkgsrc platforms are described below. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [osh-20081122]: mkconfig: * Added a case for DragonFly BSD (uname -s == DragonFly). osh.c: * Fixed a bug introduced in osh-20061230 where the shell incorrectly handles an unescaped terminating backslash (\) character at the end of string when the shell is invoked as `osh -c string'. In this case, the terminating backslash causes the shell to incorrectly read from the standard input at the end of string. For example: % osh -c 'echo Hello\' to\ you! Hello to you! This example should instead do nothing and exit w/ a zero status. For `osh -c string', an unescaped terminating backslash should effectively turn string into a no-op. Now, it behaves as expected. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [osh-20081026]: Makefile: * Changed the "oshall" target to only build osh since the fd2, goto, and if utilities are now built into the shell. * Changed the "install-oshall" target to only install osh and its manual pages. This includes the fd2.1, goto.1, and if.1 manual pages since they are not fully documented elsewhere. osh.c: * Renamed cmd_index() to cmd_lookup(), and changed the algorithm from a linear search to a binary search. * Added a base reallocation multiplier to glob() to reduce the number of realloc()s required for very large argument vectors while allowing the first malloc() to be a relatively small allocation for up to 126 matching file-name arguments. util.c: * This is a new file for the integrated shell utilities. * Added a new `-e' command-line option to fd2 to simplify redirecting all conventional output to the standard error as diagnostic output. * Integrated the external `fd2', `goto', and `if' shell utilities as special built-in commands to improve shell performance. Also, added `echo' as a special built-in command. Osh executes each of these built-ins in a subshell. Consequently, the I/O for each can be redirected as before, and the argument list for each can be the result of a call to glob() as before.
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-Osh is a re-implementation of the old and obsolete shell version,
-which was in standard use up to UNIX 6th Edition and was supplied
-as osh with UNIX 7th Edition. Its command language is a sparse
-subset of those of modern shells and is mostly common both to sh(1)
-and csh(1).
+Osh is an enhanced, backward-compatible port of the original sh(1)
+which was used as the standard command interpreter through Sixth
+Edition UNIX. It was also distributed with Seventh Edition UNIX
+as osh. Its command language is a predecessor and subset of that
+which is found in the Bourne shell and C shell.