changes.jrm

一个开放源代码的 AT&T 的 Korn Shell 的复制品, 支持大多数 ksh89 的特性。

Changes to the PD ksh since last time:

- clean up the option configuration stuff.  Options in config.h should
  now just be #define'd or not, not #define'd to 1 if you want them
  and 0 if you don't

- ksh now uses the shell specified by the variable EXECSHELL to run
  shell scripts.  If EXECSHELL is unset or null it defaults to
  /bin/sh.  It does a path lookup on the value, so if you set it to
  ``ksh'' the ksh will run all scripts that don't start with #!.  It
  seems to run most sh scripts fine (now).  I'd be very interested to
  hear your experiences if you try this out, as for my next trick I'd
  like to make ksh just fork itself to run scripts, which would speed
  things up, and allow exportable functions and aliases (like he real
  ksh).  Just to assure you that it can do some hairy sh scripts, both
  CC and coco work with ksh.

  EXECSHELL won't work if the system's exec(2) call runs scripts...

- the ``let'' builtin now evaluates null or unset vars to 0, as per
  The Book

- Various memory allocation/use problems were cleaned up.  Hopefully
  you'll never see the ``freeing free object'' error again (if you've
  ever seen it).

- the ``test'' builtin is now much more tolerant in parsing its
  arguments.  This was to make it like the /bin/sh test.

- Temp files (for here documents or ``fc'') are now mode 0600

- Some format strings in the tree printing routines got ``expanded''
  into SCCS keywords, so the results of``type <function>'' were
  gave you interesting things like the time I last checked in the
  file.  This has been fixed.

- ``unset -f'' now really does unset functions.

- the ``trailing blank or tab in alias definition'' feature now works.

- A bug in command completion was fixed.  Note command completion only
  works on commands that have been hashed, so you want to ``set -h''
  in your .kshrc, and you may wish to force hashing of some common
  commands with the ``hash'' builtin.

- ``echo $$ | cat'' now works as in /bin/sh

Not new features, but newly discovered bugs:

- Local functions don't work correctly.  This shouldn't be much
  problem, since sh doesn't have them.

- Here documents in functions don't work.  This is a problem with the
  temp file allocation that requires more work to fix than I've gotten
  around to doing.  So avoid things like:

foo() {
	cat <<- HereDoc
This is a test
HereDoc
}