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author | Jeremie Courreges-Anglas <jca@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2018-01-12 14:20:58 +0000 |
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committer | Jeremie Courreges-Anglas <jca@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2018-01-12 14:20:58 +0000 |
commit | fcf94eaf86dc8abcda80fcf777d44b44314dc86c (patch) | |
tree | 51866b780b40585964735bc0f115093e0acb0be0 /bin/ksh | |
parent | d7f36a615023d48c3427157bab34ade4a7c13e12 (diff) |
Some more tweaks to NOTES
- it's safe to assume that there's no plan to write "an `agent' to
execute unreadable/setuid/setgid shell scripts"
- the BUG-REPORTS file has been removed
- update the entry for FPATH, ksh93 also documents the described behavior
- kill entry about octal and hex notation in arithmetic expressions
(supported)
- typos
Feedback from Klemens Nanni
Diffstat (limited to 'bin/ksh')
-rw-r--r-- | bin/ksh/NOTES | 17 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/bin/ksh/NOTES b/bin/ksh/NOTES index 2e1d8254d84..5bda635249d 100644 --- a/bin/ksh/NOTES +++ b/bin/ksh/NOTES @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$OpenBSD: NOTES,v 1.15 2018/01/08 13:39:06 jca Exp $ +$OpenBSD: NOTES,v 1.16 2018/01/12 14:20:57 jca Exp $ General features of at&t ksh88 that are not (yet) in pdksh: - exported aliases and functions (not in ksh93). @@ -6,12 +6,10 @@ General features of at&t ksh88 that are not (yet) in pdksh: - signals/traps not cleared during functions. - trap DEBUG, local ERR and EXIT traps in functions. - ERRNO parameter. - - use of an `agent' to execute unreadable/setuid/setgid shell scripts - (don't ask). - read/select aren't hooked in to the command line editor - the last command of a pipeline is not run in the parent shell -Known bugs (see also BUG-REPORTS and PROJECTS files): +Known bugs (see also PROJECTS files): Variable parsing, Expansion: - some specials behave differently when unset (eg, IFS behaves like " \t\n") others lose their special meaning. IFS/PATH taken care of, @@ -25,9 +23,9 @@ Known bugs (see also BUG-REPORTS and PROJECTS files): Commands,Execution: - setting special parameters that have side effects when changed/restored (ie, HISTFILE, OPTIND, RANDOM) in front - of a command (eg, HISTFILE=/foo/bar echo hi) effects the parent + of a command (eg, HISTFILE=/foo/bar echo hi) affects the parent shell. Note that setting other (not so special) parameters - does not effect the parent shell. + does not affect the parent shell. - `echo hi | exec cat -n' causes at&t to exit, `exec echo hi | cat -n' does not. pdksh exits for neither. Don't think POSIX requires an exit, but not sure. @@ -239,8 +237,8 @@ Oddities in ksh (pd & at&t): - when tracing (set -x), and a command's stderr is redirected, the trace output is also redirected. so "set -x; echo foo 2> /tmp/O > /dev/null" will create /tmp/foo with the lines "+ > /dev/null" and "+ echo foo". - - undocumented at&t ksh feature: FPATH is searched after PATH if no - executable is found, even if typeset -uf wasn't used. + - undocumented at&t ksh88, documented in ksh93: FPATH is searched + after PATH if no executable is found, even if typeset -uf wasn't used. POSIX sh questions (references are to POSIX 1003.2-1992) - arithmetic expressions: how are empty expressions treated? @@ -276,9 +274,6 @@ POSIX sh bugs (references are to POSIX 1003.2-1992) functions don't do the save/restore automatically). Restoring OPTIND is kind of dumb since getopts may have been in the middle of parsing a group of flags (eg, -abc). - - unclear whether arithmetic expressions (eg, $((..))) should - understand C integer constants (ie, 0x123, 0177). at&t ksh doesn't - and neither does pdksh. - `...` definition (3.6.3) says nothing about backslash followed by a newline, which sh and at&t ksh strip out completely. e.g., $ show-args `echo 'X |