Although "--" historically has not been required to be recognized for
certain special builtins that do not take options in POSIX, some other
implementations recognize options for them, requiring scripts to use "--" or
avoid operands starting with "-".
Operands starting with "-" can be avoided with eval by prepending a space,
and cannot occur with break, continue, exit, return and shift as they only
take numbers, nor with times as it does not take operands. With . and exec,
avoiding "-" is not so easy as it may require reimplementing the PATH
search; therefore the current proposal for POSIX is to require recognition
of "--" for them.
We continue to accept other strings starting with "-" as operands to . and
exec, and also "--" if it is alone to . (which would otherwise be invalid
anyway).
Unset PWD if it is incorrect and no value for it can be determined.
This preserves the logical current directory across shell invocations.
Example (assuming /home is a symlink):
$ cd
$ pwd
/home/foo
$ sh
$ pwd
/home/foo
Formerly the second pwd would show the physical path (symlinks resolved).
Reset the exception handler in the child to main's.
This avoids inappropriate double cleanups or shell duplication when the
exception is caught, such as 'fc' and future 'command eval' and 'command .'.
It is already done by evalcommand(), unless special-ness has been removed,
in which case variable assignments should not persist. (These are currently
always special builtins, but this will change later: command builtin,
command substitution.)
This also fixes a memory leak when calling . with variable assignments.
Example:
valgrind --leak-check=full sh -c 'x=1 . /dev/null; x=2'
* increase buffer size from 100 to 256 bytes
* remove implied flush from out2str(), in particular this avoids unnecessary
flushing in the middle of a -x tracing line
* rename dprintf() to out2fmt_flush(), make it flush out2 and use this
function in various places where flushing is desired after an error
message
This change only affects strings passed to -c, when the -s
option is not used.
The approach is to check if there may be additional data
in the string after parsing each command. If there is none,
use the EV_EXIT flag so that a fork may be omitted in
specific cases.
If there are empty lines after the command, the check will
not see the end and forks will not be omitted. The same
thing seems to happen in bash.
Example:
sh -c 'ps lT'
No longer shows a shell process waiting for ps to finish.
PR: bin/113860
Reviewed by: stefanf
Approved by: ed (mentor)
would always terminate if eval returned with a non-zero exit status regardless
if the status was actually tested. Unfortunately a new file-scope variable
is needed, the alternative would only be to add a new parameter to all
built-ins.
PR: 134881
process leader for each job. Now the last specified option for the output
format (-l, -p or -s) wins, previously -s trumped -l.
PR: 99926
Submitted by: Ed Schouten and novel (patches modified by me)
is just ". file" according to POSIX, however many other shells allow
arguments to be passed after the file. For compatibility (we even use that
feature in buildworld) additional arguments are not considered to be an
error, even though this shell does not do anything with the arguments at all.
adding history and vi/emacs-style line editing to the shell itself.
Atty was a user-mode terminal emulator (like screen and window) that did
line editing and history.
o Old-style K&R declarations have been converted to new C89 style
o register has been removed
o prototype for main() has been removed (gcc3 makes it an error)
o int main(int argc, char *argv[]) is the preferred main definition.
o Attempt to not break style(9) conformance for declarations more than
they already are.
o Change
int
foo() {
...
to
int
foo(void)
{
...
growstackblock() sometimes relocates a stack_block considered empty
without properly relocating stack marks referencing that block.
The first call to popstackmark() with the unrelocated stack mark
as argument then causes sh to abort.
Relocating the relevant stack marks seems to solve this problem.
The patch changes the semantics of popstackmark() somewhat. It can
only be called once after a call to setstackmark(), thus cmdloop() in
main.c needs an extra call to setstackmark().
PR: bin/19983
Submitted by: Tor.Egge@fast.no
Reviewed by: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
now handles the getpwd() init problem the same way as bash
and ksh do. Also while I was in here, I cleaned up the format
a little, removed some unnnecessary #if SYMLINKS cruft, and
changed the pwd builtin to use getcwd(3) as Joerg suggested.
merge of parallel duplicate work by Steve Price and myself. :-]
There are some changes to the build that are my fault... mkinit.c was
trying (poorly) to duplicate some of the work that make(1) is designed to
do. The Makefile hackery is my fault too, the depend list was incomplete
because of some explicit OBJS+= entries, so mkdep wasn't picking up their
source file #includes.
This closes a pile of /bin/sh PR's, but not all of them..
Submitted by: Steve Price <steve@bonsai.hiwaay.net>, peter
