Oguz <oguzismailuysal@gmail.com>
If echo detects an I/O error, it does exit(1) (that's fine) but then
the next echo also does exit(1) even without any errors of its own,
and every following echo writing to stdout does the same thing.
eg:
echo foo >&- ; echo $?; echo $?; ( echo $( echo $?; echo $?) ; echo $? )
1
1
1 1
1
The first echo writes nothing (stdout is closed) but does exit(1).
The second echo writes "1" (correct, the exit status of the previous
echo) and should exit(0) - but doesn't. This pattern continues...
While here, conform to the POSIX requirement on echo (and many other
standard utilities, but definitely not all) that when the utility
does exit(>0) a message must be written to stderr (and vice versa
in many cases). Our echo (as shown above) did the exit(1) part
when it detected the I/O error, but no message is sent to stderr.
Fix that while we're here.
Similar changes are required for /bin/echo (coming soon), and
/usr/bin/printf (which is also the sh builtin printf) - except
currently that one kind of conforms, as it ignores errors writing
to stdout (as do large numbers of other utilities). For many
programs that's kind of acceptable, but where the sole purpose of
the program is to write to stdout, it really isn't. Also to be
fixed soon.
Correct an issue found by Oguz <oguzismailuysal@gmail.com> and reported
in e-mail (on the bug-bash list initially!) with the code changed to deal
with PR bin/48875
With:
sh -c 'echo start at $SECONDS;
(sleep 3 & (sleep 1& wait) );
echo end at $SECONDS'
The shell should say "start at 0\nend at 1\n", but instead (before
this fix, in -9 and HEAD, but not -8) does "start at 0\nend at 3\n"
(Not in -8 as the 48875 changes were never pulled up)>
There was an old problem, fixed years ago, which cause the same symptom,
related to the way the jobs table was cleared (or not) in subshells, and
it seemed like that might have resurfaced.
But not so, the issue here is the sub-shell elimination, which was part
of the 48875 "fix" (not really, it wasn't really a bug, just sub-optimal
and unexpected behaviour).
What the shell actually has been running in this case is:
sh -c 'echo start at $SECONDS;
(sleep 3 & sleep 1& wait );
echo end at $SECONDS'
as the inner subshell was deemed unnecessary - all its parent would
do is wait for its exit status, and then exit with that status - we
may as well simply replace the current sub-shell with the new one,
let it do its thing, and we're done...
But not here, the running "sleep 3" will remain a child of that merged
sub-shell, and the "wait" will thus wait for it, along with the sleep 1
which is all it should be seeing.
For now, fix this by not eliminating a sub-shell if there are existing
unwaited upon children in the current one. It might be possible to
simply disregard the old child for the purposes of wait (and "jobs", etc,
all cmds which look at the jobs table) but the bookkeeping required to
make that work reliably is likely to take some time to get correct...
Along with this fix comes a fix to DEBUG mode shells, which, in situations
like this, could dump core in the debug code if the relevant tracing was
enabled, and add a new trace for when the jobs table is cleared (which was
added predating the discovery of the actual cause of this issue, but seems
worth keeping.) Neither of these changes have any effect on shells
compiled normally.
XXX pullup -9
Correctly handle (ie: ignore completely) \0 chars (nuls) in the
shell command input stream (script, dot file, or stdin).
Previously nul chars were ignored correctly in the line in which
they occurred, but would cause trailing chars of that line to reappear
as the start of the following line. If there was just one \0 skipped,
this would generally result in an extra \n in the sh input, which in
most cases has no effect. With multiple \0's in a single line, more
of the end of that line was duplicated into the following one. This
usually manifested as a weird "command not found" error.
Note that any \0 chars in the sh input make the script non-conforming,
so fixing this is not crucial (no \0's should really ever be seen) but
it was an obvious bug in the code, which was attempting to ignore nul
chars (as do many other shells), so let it be fixed.
XXX pullup -9
This fixes the MSAN detected reference to an unitialised variable
(an unitialised field in a struct) which happens when a command is
not found after a PATH search.
Aside from skipping some known to be going to fail exec*() calls
in some cases, the setting of the relevant field is irrelevant,
so this problem makes no practical difference to the shell, or any
shell script.
XXX (maybe) pullup -9
the "local" built-in command description (pointed out by mrg@ via uwe@ in
private e-mail).
Add a description to the export command of why this quoting is required,
and then refer to it from local and readonly (explained in export as that
one comes first).
Note that some shells parse export/local/readonly (and often more) as
"declarative" commands, and this quoting isn't needed (provided the
command name is literal and not the result of an expansion) making
X=$Y type args not require quoting, as they often don't in a regular
variable assignment (preceding, or not part of, another command).
POSIX is going to allow, but not require, that behaviour. We do not
implement it.
instead of simply assuming that the pid of the first (leftmost) process
in a pipeline is the pgrp - someday we may switch things around and
create pipelines right to left instead, which has several advantages,
but which would invalidate the assumption which was being made here.
abs(pid)) and indicate that -- is (strictly) needed if the first pid arg
(there often is only one) is negative - though this implementation works
without it if a signal to send has been explicitly given, but whereas
'kill 1234" is valid (send SIGTERM to pid 1234) "kill -1234" will generate
a usage error from the attempt to send signal 1234 to nothing, to send
SIGTERM to pgrp 1234 it needs to be "kill -- -1234" (or "kill -s term -1234").
While here do a couple of markup improvements, and allow for the
possibility that users might be running the builtin kill from some
shell other than csh or sh.
That means we cannot use (pid_t)-1 as an error indicator, as that's a
valid pid to use (described as working in kill(1) - yet it wasn't working
in /bin/kill (nor sh's builtin kill, which is essentially the same code).
This is even required to work by POSIX.
So change processnum() (the parser/validator for the pid args) to take
a pointer to a pid_t and return the pid that way, leaving the return value
of the (now int) function to indicate just ok/error. While here, fix
the validation a little ('' is no longer an accepted alias for 0) and in
case of an error from kill(2) have the error message indicate whether the
kill was targeted at a pid of a pgrp.
environment, rather than the nicer layout that is normally used.
Note this applies to /bin/kill only, the builtin kill in sh uses its
"posix" option for the same purpose, the one in csh only ever uses
POSIX format.
Better describe the command search procedure.
Document "trap -P"
Describe what works as a function name.
More accurate description of reserved word recognition.
Be more accurate about when field splittng happens after
expansions (and in particular note that tilde expansions are
not subject to field splitting). Be clear that "$@" is
not field split, it simply produces multiple fields as part
of its expansion (hence IFS is irrelevant to this), but if
used as $@ (unquoted) each field produced is potentially subject
to field splitting. Other minor wording changes.
traps_invalid (that is, when we actually nuke the parent shell's
caught traps in a subshell). This allows more reasonable use of
"trap -p" (and similar) in subshells than existed before (and in
particular, that command can be in a function now - there can also
be several related commands like
traps=$(trap -p INT; trap -p QUIT; trap -p HUP)
A side effect of all of this is that
(eval "$(trap -p)"; ...)
now allows copying caught traps into a subshell environment, if desired.
Also att the ksh93 variant (the one not picked by POSIX as it isn't
generally as useful) of "trap -p" (but call it "trap -P" which extracts
just the trap action for named signals (giving more than one is usually
undesirable). This allows
eval "$(trap -P INT)"
to run the action for SIGINT traps, without needing to attempt to parse
the "trap -p" output.
Also enhance some of the DEBUG mode trace output (nothing visible
in a normal shell build).
A couple of very minor code changes that no-one should ever notice
(eg: one less wait() call in the case that there is nothing pending).
functions being defined (they can still be included if quoted).
If we parsed the way POSIX specifies (leaving the exact input text of
$ and ` expansions unaltered, until required to be expanded) this would
not be needed, as the name of a function being defined does not underbo
parameter, command, or arith expansions, so xxx$3() { : ; } would just
work. But for many reasons we don't do that (and are unlikely to ever,
though maintaing both forms might be an option someday) - which led to
very obscure behaviour (if sh were compiled in DEBUG mode, even an abort())
and certainly nothing useful. So just prohibit these uses for now.
(A portable function name must be a "name" so this makes no difference
at all to posix compat applications/scripts).
A doc update is pending (the updated sh.1 also contains updates in other
areas not yet appropriate to commit).
When allocating for a Char **, it should use sizeof(Char *), not
sizeof(Char **). This doesn't actually affect the results except
on DS9000 though :-)
(part 2, the instance in this file was as far as I can tell
inexplicably missed by CVS on the first go...)
extra && or || or something ... forgotten now) as part a failed attempt
to fix an earlier bug (later fixed a better way) - when the extra
test (never committed) was removed, the now-redundant parentheses got
forgotten...
NFC.
Fix a bug that has existed since the "command" command was added in
2003. "command foo" would cause the definition of a function "foo"
to be lost (not freed, simply discarded) if "foo" is (in addition to
being a function) a filesystem command. The case where "foo" is
a builtin was handled.
For now, when a function exists with the same name as a filesystem
command, the latter can never appear in the command hash table, and
when used (which can only be via "command foo", just "foo" finds
the function) will always result in a full PATH search.
XXX pullup everything (from NetBSD 2.0 onwards). (really -8 and -9)
It is not enough to avoid displaying the contents of the directory,
we need to set FTS_SKIP to avoid descending into any subdirs too.
Otherwise, if a ".foo" directory has a subdirectory "bar", ls will
descend into bar and display its contents. From Todd Miller
`mv -h source target' just issues rename(source, target) without
discriminating on whether target resolves to a directory; this way
you can atomically replace a symlink to a directory.
would lead to a desynchronization of the protocol and further files or
directories to be ignored or corrupted.
Reported by Daniel Goujot, Georges-Axel Jaloyan, Ryan Lahfa, and David Naccache.
The other BSDs all have a note reminding that many shells have their
own internal echo implementations which may vary from this utility, so
add one. (Much of the wording is borrowed from FreeBSD's man page.)
(The other BSDs also have notes about the -n option not really being
portable, and printf[1] being preferable, we might want to add
something about that, too.)
the output will not be further processed (at all) so there is no need
to escape magic chars in the output, and doing so leaves stray CTLESC
chars in the here doc text. Not good. So don't do that...
To save a strlen() of the result, to determine the size of the here doc,
make rmescapes() return the length of the resulting string (this isn't
needed for other uses, so didn't happen previously).
Reported on current-users@ (2020-02-06) by Jun Ebihara
XXX pullup -9
children happens to exit while we are waiting for another child
to exit.
This can happen with code like
sh -c '
sleep 5 &
exec sh -c "sleep 10 & wait !$"
'
when the inner "sh" is waiting for the 10 second sleep to be
done, the 5 second sleep started earlier terminates. It is
a child of our process, as the inner shell is the same process
as the outer one, but not a known child (the inner shell has no
idea what the outer one did before it started).
This was observed in the wild by Martijn Dekker (where the outer
shell was bash but that's irrelevant).
XXX pullup -9
that we can always wait(2) for our children, and an ignored SIGCHLD
prevents that. Recent versions of bash can be convinced (due to a
bug most likely) to invoke us that way. Always return SIGCHLD to
SIG_DFL during init - we already prevent scripts from fiddling it.
All ash derived shells apparently have this problem (observed by
Martijn Dekker, and notified on the bash-bug list). Actual issue
diagnosed by Harald van Dijk (same list).
Mark the variable as volatile as it can be clobbered when a vfork occurs.
Error was reported when build.sh was run with MKLIBCSANITIZER=yes flag.
Reviewed by: kamil@
https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=252
the Austin Group decided to require processing of "--" by the "."
and "exec" commands to solve a problem where some shells did
option processing for those commands (permitted) and others did
not (also permitted) which left no safe way to process a file
with a name beginning with "-".
This has finally made its way into what will be the next version of
the POSIX standard.
Since this shell did no option processing at all for those commands,
we need to update. This is that update.
The sole effect is that a "--" 'option' (to "." or "exec") is ignored.
This means that if you want to use "--" as the arg to one of those
commands, it needs to be given twice ". -- --". Apart from that there
should be no difference at all (though the "--" can now be used in other
situations, where we did not require it before, and still do not).
process with redirects. If we use vfork() and a redirect hangs
(eg: opening a fifo) which the parent was intended to unhang,
then the parent never gets to continue to unhang the child.
eg: mkfifo f; cat <f &; echo foo>f
The parent should not be waiting for a background process, even
just for its exec() to complete. if there are no redirects there
is (should be) nothing left that might be done that will cause any
noticeable delay, so vfork() should be safe in all other cases.
If a builtin command or function is the final command intended to be
executed, and is interrupted by a caught signal, the trap handler for
that signal was not executed - the shell simply exited (an exit trap
handler would still have been run - if there was one the handler
for the signal may have been invoked during the execution of the
exit trap handler, which, if it happened, is incorrect sequencing).
Now, if we're exiting, and there are pending signals, run their handlers
just before running the EXIT trap handler, if any.
There are almost certainly plenty more issues with traps that need
solving. Later,
XXX pullup -9
(-8 is too different in this area, and this problem suitably obscure,
that we won't bother) (the -7 sh is simply obsolete).
Having traps set should not enforce a fork for the next command,
whatever that command happens to be, only for commands which would
normally fork if they weren't the last command expected to be
executed (ie: builtins and functions shouldn't be exexuted in a
sub-shell merely because a trap is set).
As it was (for example)
trap 'whatever' SIGANY; wait $anypid
was guaranteed to fail the wait, as the subshell it was executed
in could not have any children.
XXX pullup -9
GCC_NO_FORMAT_TRUNCATION -Wno-format-truncation (GCC 7/8)
GCC_NO_STRINGOP_TRUNCATION -Wno-stringop-truncation (GCC 8)
GCC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW -Wno-stringop-overflow (GCC 8)
GCC_NO_CAST_FUNCTION_TYPE -Wno-cast-function-type (GCC 8)
use these to turn off warnings for most GCC-8 complaints. many
of these are false positives, most of the real bugs are already
commited, or are yet to come.
we plan to introduce versions of (some?) of these that use the
"-Wno-error=" form, which still displays the warnings but does
not make it an error, and all of the above will be re-considered
as either being "fix me" (warning still displayed) or "warning
is wrong."
a bracket expression in a pattern (ie: [[:THISNAME:]]). Previously
the code used strspn() to look for invalid chars in the name, and
then memcpy(), now we do the test and copy a character at a time.
This might, or might not, be faster, but it now correctly handles
\ quoted characters in the name (' and " quoting were already
dealt with, \ was too in an earlier version, but when the \ handling
changes were made, this piece of code broke).
Not exactly a vital bug fix (who writes [[:\alpha:]] or similar?)
but it should work correctly regardless of how obscure the usage is.
Problem noted by Harald van Dijk
XXX pullup -9
our implementation was fine, but the restrict marker is problematic
as gcc 8 is now more strict about checking for restrict issues.
this is the only actual consumer of swab(3) in our tree, though,
besides the test for it. oh well.
The new member is caled f_mntfromlabel and it is the dkw_wname
of the corresponding wedge. This is now used by df -W to display
the mountpoint name as NAME=
like the other tty ioctls that we only warn about). Do the main
ioctl (tcgetattr) first, since that provides a better error message
(ENOTTY instead of EINVAL).
The RSS related statistics are now back in the NetBSD kernel.
These values were disabled since day0 until today.
libkvm(3) users will still receive inappropriate values as RSS statistics
are updated upon sysctl(3) call.
Patch submitted by <Krzysztof Lasocki>
(inside a function or dot script) the exit status of that return
statement should become the exit status of the function (or dot
script) - we were ignoring it,
That is
fn() { while return 7; do return 9; done; return 11; }
should exit with status 7. It was exiting 0.
This is apparently another old ash bug that has been fixed
everywhere else in the past.
Issue pointed out by Martijn Dekker, (fairly obvious) fix borrowed
from FreeBSD, due for return sometime next century.
in the past, but managed to re-surface...
The expression "${0+\}}" should expand to "}" not "\}"
Almost all other shells handle it that way (incl FreeBSD & dash).
Issue pointed out by Martijn Dekker.
Add ATF sub-tests for the 4 old var expand operators (${var+word}
${var-word} ${var-word} and ${var?word} - including the forms
with the ':' included) and amongst those tests include test cases
for this issue, so if the bug tries to appear again, we can squash
it quicker. (The newer pattern matching operators are already
well tested as part of testing patterns.)
cleanups to the trap code. No longer silently ignore attempts to
do anything other than set SIGKILL or SIGSTOP to the default ('-")
state. Don't include those in trap or trap -p output (the former
because they cannot be other than in default state, so simply aren't
included, the latter because it is pointless) but do list them
when requested with trap -p SIG.
Interactive mode SIGINT traps are now run ASAP, rather than after
a command has been entered (so the sequence ^C \n is no longer needed
to generate one). Further, when trapped, in interactive mode,
while waiting for a user command, a SIGINT acts (aside from the
trap being run) just like when not trapped, aborts the command being
entered (rather than leaving it, which it did when libedit was in use)
prints a new prompt, and starts again (which is what should happen.)
Traps other than SIGINT (which has always been handled special in
interactive mode) are unaffected by this change, as are SIGINT traps
in non-interactive shells. Or that is the intent anyway.
Fix an in_dotrap ref count bug (was never being decremented... that
was inserted in a place never executed) (relatively harmless) and
add/improve some trap/signal related DEBUG mode tracing.
Update the description of the <& and >& redirection operators
(as indicated would happen in a message appended to the PR a week ago,
which received no opposition - no feedback).
Some rewriting of the section on redirects (including how the word
expansion of the "file" works) to make this simpler & more accurate.
Fix handling of "$@" (that is, double quoted dollar at), when it
appears in a string which will be subject to field splitting.
Eg:
${0+"$@" }
More common usages, like the simple "$@" or ${0+"$@"} end up
being entirely quoted, so no field splitting happens, and the
problem was avoided.
See the PR for more details.
This ends up making a bunch of old hack code (and some that was
relatively new) vanish - for now it is just #if 0'd or commented out.
Cleanups of that stuff will happen later.
That some of the worst $@ hacks are now gone does not mean that processing
of "$@" does not retain a very special place in every hackers heart.
RIP extreme ugliness - long live the merely ordinary ugly.
Added a new bin/sh ATF test case to verify that all this remains fixed.
finding a job that had previously terminated.
Now in that case JOBWANTED is set on all jobs (since any will do)
which then simplifies a later test which no longer needs to special
case "wait -n". Further, we always look to see if any wanted
job has already terminated, even if there are still running jobs
we can wait upon - if anything is already ready, that's where we start
harvesting (and finish, if -n is specified).
Stamp out "greengrocers' apostrophes" in various places (arguably there
are still more present, but style guides vary on that, and my energies
spent corralling wayward punctuation marks could be spent elsewhere).
As a somewhat pedantic clarification, "-s" does not accept backslashes
as delimiters. (While here, also make the macro use of an expression
shared between pax.1 and tar.1 consistent.)
Note the "s" option has an "s" flag that "prevents substitutions from
being performed on symbolic link destinations". Carry over r. 1.25 from
christos@ and part of r. 1.26 from wiz@ from tar.1, since this
functionality is available in pax as well as tar.
integer (previously it was just clamped at the max possible value).
This would have caused
sleep 10000000000000000000
(or anything bigger) to have only actually slept for 9223372036854775807
secs. Someone would have noticed that happen, one day, in some other
universe.
This is now an error, as it was previously if this had been entered as
sleep 1e19
Also detect an attempt to sleep for so long that a time_t will no longer
be able to represent the current time when the sleep is done.
Undo the attempts to work around a broken kernel nanosleep()
implementation (by only ever issuing shortish sleep requests,
and looping). That code was broken (idiot botch of mine) though
you would have had to wait a month to observe it happen. I was going
to just fix it, but sanity prevailed, and the kernel got fixed instead.
That allows this to be much simplified, only looping as needed to
handle dealing with SIGINFO. Switch to using clock_nanosleep()
to implement the delay, as while our nanosleep() uses CLOCK_MONOTONIC
the standards say it should use CLOCK_REALTIME, and if that we
ever changed that, the old way would alter "sleep 5" from
"sleep for 5 seconds" to "sleep until now + 5 secs", which is
subtly different.
Always use %g format to print the original sleep duration in reports of how
much time remains - this works best for both long and short durations.
A couple of other minor (frill) mods to the SIGINFO report message as well.
with an IQ that underflows when one attempts to enter it as an
unnormalised 160 bit long long double...
Whoever would believe that (~0 & anything) was a meaningful thing
to write? And three times in one #define. That could not possibly
have been me, could it?
Simplify, simplify, simplify. NFC.
to allow bash to build fdflags on Solaris 10, here are some mods that
fix that, and some other similar issues in the NetBSD version of fdflags.
The bash implementation of fdflags is based upon the one Christos did for
the NetBSD sh, so the issues are similar ... the NetBSD sh cannot yet
(easily anyway) build on anything except NetBSD, so this change makes
no current difference at all (just adds some compile time tests (#ifdef)
which always work out the way things did before, when built on NetBSD).
However, there is no system on which any modern shell can hope to work
which does not support close on exec, or fcntl(F_SETFD,...) to set it.
The O_CLOEXEC and FD_CLOEXEC definitions might not exist, but close on
exec can still be manipulated. Since the primary rationale for
the fdflags builtin was to be able to manipulate that state bit from
scripts, it would be annoying to lose that one, and keep all the (less
important) others, just because O_CLOEXEC is not defined, so do the
fix (workaround) a different way than was done in the bash patch.
Further, more than fdflags() will fail if O_CLOEXEC is not defined,
so handle that as well.
Also fix another oddity ... (noticed by reading the code) - if
fcntl(F_GETFL,...) returned any bits set that we don't understand,
the code was supposed to simply print their values as a hex constant,
when fdflags is run with -v. However, the getflags() function was
clearing all bits that the code did not know about ... so there is
no way any unknown bit could ever make it out to be printed. Handle
that a different way - instead of clearing unknown bits, clear any
bits that get returned which we understand, but do not want to deal
with (stuff like O_WRONLY, which should not be returned from the
fcntl(), but who knows...) Leave any unknown bits that happen to be
set, set, so that printone() can display them if appropriate.
(This is most likely to happen when running an older shell on a new
kernel where the kernel supports some new flag that the shell has
not been taught to understand).
NFCI that anyone should notice anytime soon.
matches the internal CTL* chars.
The earlier fixes handled CTL* char values in var expansions,
but not in various other places they can occur (positional
parameters, $@ $* -- even potentially $0 and ~ expansions,
as well as byte strings generated from a \u in a $'' string).
These should all be correctly handled now. There is a new
ISCTL() macro to make the test, rather than using the old
BASESYNTAX[c]==CCTL form (which us still a viable alternative)
as the new way allows compiler optimisations, and less mem
references, so it should be smaller and faster.
Also, be sure in all cases to remove any CTLESC (or other)
CTL* chars from all strings before they are made available
for any external use (there was one case missed - which didn't
matter when we weren't bothering to escape the CTL* chars at
all.)
XXX pullup-8 (will need to be via a patch) along with the Feb 4 fixes.
tree, don't display a CTLESC which is there only to protect a CTL*
char (a data char that happens to have the same value). No actual
CTL* chars are printed as data, so no escaping is needed to protect
data which just happens to look the same. Dropping this avoids the
possibility of confusion/ambiguity in what the word actually contains.
NFC for any normal shell build (very little of this file gets compiled there)
anway) on tech-userlevel with no adverse response.
This allows the magic of vars like HOSTNAME SECONDS, ToD (etc) to be
restored should it be lost - perhaps by having a var of the same name
imported from the environment (which needs to remove the magic in case
a set of scripts are using the env to pass data, and the var name chosen
happens to be one of our magic ones).
No change to SMALL shells (or smaller) - none of the magic vars (except
LINENO, which is exempt from all of this) exist in those, hence such a
shell has no need for this command either.
redirect operator is within range of what the code tree node can
hold. Currently this is a no-op change (the new error can never
occur) as the code already checks that N is in range for an int
(and errors if not) and the field in the node in which we store N
is also an int, so we cannot overflow - but fd's do not really need
to be that big (the max a typical kernel supports is < 10000) so
this just adds validation in case it ever happens that we decide we
can save some node size (ie: sh memory) by making that field smaller.
Note this is parse time error detection, and has no bearing upon
the execution time error that will occur if a script attempts to use
an fd that exceeds the process's max fd limit.
NFCI (for now anyway.)
a value. There are none which do that at the minute, so this is a NFCI
change, which is just making the code correct even though nothing
currently triggers any bugs.
%x commands) generate the most useful error message (from errno value)
rather than whichever happened last.
In posix mode, cause the "jobs" command to delete records of completed
jobs it reports on (as posix requires) as is done in interactive shells.
We don't (won't) do this in !posix mode, as the ability to throw in a
"jobs" command in a script to debug what is happening is too useful to
lose -- and any script that is relying on "jobs" instead of "wait" to
cleanup background processes (from the sh jobs table, sh always collects
zombies from the kernel) is absurd and not worth considering (besides
which I've never seen one).
No visible differences expected - there is a remote chance that
some internal lossage may no longer occur in interactive shells
that receive SIGINT (untrapped) at inopportune times, but you would
have had to have been very unlucky to have ever suffered from that.
Suppress shell error messages while expanding $ENV (which also causes
errors while expanding $PS1 $PS2 and $PS4 to be suppressed as well).
This allows any random garbage that happens to be in ENV to not
cause noise when the shell starts (which is effectively all it did).
On a parse error (for any of those vars) we also use "" as the result,
which will be a null prompt, and avoid attempting to open any file for ENV.
This does not in any way change what happens for a correctly parsed command
substitution (either when it is executed when permitted for one of the
prompts, or when it is not (which is always for ENV)) and commands run
from those can still produce error output (but shell errors remain suppressed).
fixes) where a variable containing a CTL char (the only possibility used
to be CTLESC (0x81)) would lose that character if the variable was expanded
when "set -f" (noglob) was in effect.
1.128 made this worse by adding more 0x8z values (a couple more) which would
see the same behaviour, and one of those was noticed by Martijn Dekker.
The reasoning was that when noglob is on, when a var is expanded, there are
no magic chars, so (apparently) no need to escape anything. Hence nothing
was escaped .. including any CTL chars that happened to be present. When
we later rmescapes() the CTL chars that we expect might occur are summarily
removed - even if they weren't really CTL chars, but just data masquerading.
We must *always* escape any CTL char clones that are in the var value,
no matter what other conditions apply, and what we expect to happen next.
While here, fix rmescapes() (and its $(()) clone, rmescapes_nl()) to
be more robust, less likely to forget to delete anything (which was
not the issue here, just the reverse) and in a DEBUG shell, have the
shell abort() if it encounters something in rmescapes() it is not
anticipating, so the code can be made to handle it, or if it should
not happen, we can find out why it did.
XXX pullup -8 (but will need to be via patch, code is quite different).
After all, a system might want to sleep for several
thousand years on a spaceship headed to a distant
solar system...
So, remove the pause() code, deal with limits on the
range (it is just an int) that can be passed to sleep()
by looping, and do a much better job of checking for
out of range input values.
With this change sleep(1) should work for durations
up to something more than 250 billion years. It
fails (at startup, with an error) if the requested
duration is beyond what can be handled.
Here no changes at all related to locales and arg
parsing. Still for another day.
integer" case, so we avoid adjusting the locale of sleep,
and generally be more reliable and simpler.
In addition, deal with weirdness in nanosleep() when the
interval gets long, by avoiding using it. In this version
when the sleep interval < 10000 seconds, we use nanosleep()
as before, for delays longer than that we use sleep() instead,
and ignore any fractional seconds.
We avoid overflow problems here by not bothering to sleep
at all for delays longer than 135 years (approx) and simply
pause() instead. That sleep never terminates in such a
case is unlikely to ever be observed.
This commit makes no decision on the question of whether
the arg should be interpreted in the locale of the user,
or always in the C locale. That is for another day.
src/tests/bin/sh/t_here.sh
The "magicq" magic was all wrong - it cannot be simply a parameter
to readtoken1() as its value needs to alter during that routine
(eg: when magicq is set - processing here doc text, or whatever)
and we encountered ${var%pattern} "magicq" needs to be off for
"pattern" - and it wasn't.
To handle this magicq needs to be included in the token stack struct,
and simply init'd from the arg to readtoken1 (which we rename).
Then it can be manipulated as required.
Once we no longer have that problem, some other issues can be cleaned
up as well (some of this unbelievably fragile code was attempting to
cope with this in various ad-hoc - and mostly broken - ways).
Also, remove the magicq parameter from parsebackq() - it was not
used (at all) and should never be, a command substitution, wherever
it appears, always starts a new parsing context. How that applies
to old style command substitutions is less clear, but until we see
some real examples where we're not doing the right thing (slightly
less likely now than before ... nothing has changed here in the
way command substitutions are parsed, but quoting in general is
slightly better) I don't plan on worrying about it.
There are a couple of other minor cleanups, which make no actual
difference (like adding () around the use of the parameter in the
RETURN macro ... which is generally better, but makes no difference
here as the param is always a simple constant.
All the current ATF tests pass.
kre