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diff --git a/bin/ksh/NOTES b/bin/ksh/NOTES index 906129eef42..fa009dcadd6 100644 --- a/bin/ksh/NOTES +++ b/bin/ksh/NOTES @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$OpenBSD: NOTES,v 1.5 1998/10/29 04:09:19 millert Exp $ +$OpenBSD: NOTES,v 1.6 1999/01/08 20:24:57 millert Exp $ General features of at&t ksh88 that are not (yet) in pdksh: - exported aliases and functions (not in ksh93). @@ -36,6 +36,13 @@ Known bugs (see also BUG-REPORTS and PROJECTS files): in pdksh (ie, the read is done in a separate process in pdksh). Misc: +Known problems not caused by ksh: + - after stoping a job, emacs/vi is not re-entered. Hitting return + prints the prompt and everything is fine again. Problem (often + involving a pager like less) is related to order of process + scheduling (shell runs before `stop'ed (sub) processes have had a chance + to clean up the screen/terminal). + Known differences between pdksh & at&t ksh (that may change) - vi: - `^U': at&t: kills only what has been inserted, pdksh: kills to @@ -191,6 +198,13 @@ Known differences between pdksh & at&t ksh (that are not likely to change) at&t ksh (and sh) don't. Eg., pdksh likes while false ; do done but ksh88 doesn't like it. + - pdksh bumps RANDOM in parent after a fork, at&t ksh bumps it in both + parent and child: + RANDOM=1 + echo child: `echo $RANDOM` + echo parent: $RANDOM + will produce "child: 16838 parent: 5758" in pdksh, while at&t ksh + will produce "child: 5758 parent: 5758". Oddities in ksh (pd & at&t): - array references inside (())/$(()) are strange: |