ALso, cause exec failures to always cause the shell to exit with
status 126 or 127, whatever the cause. 127 is intended for lookup
failures (and is used that way), 126 is used for anything else that
goes wrong (as in several other shells.) We no longer use 2 (more easily
confused with an exit status of the command exec'd) for shell exec failures.
the new format. Also #if 0 a function definition that is used nowhere.
While here, change the function of pushfile() slightly - it now sets
the buf pointer in the top (new) input descriptor to NULL, instead of
simply leaving it - code that needs a buffer always (before and after)
must malloc() one and assign it after the call. But code which does not
(which will be reading from a string or similar) now does not have to
explicitly set it to NULL (cleaner interface.) NFC intended (or observed.)
configure script, ie: $(( which is intended to be a sub-shell in a
command substitution, but is an arith subst instead, it needs to be
written $( ( to do as intended. Instead of just blindly carrying on to
find the missing )) somewhere, anywhere, give up as soon as we have seen
an unbalanced ')' that isn't immediately followed by another ')' which
in a valid arith subst it always would be.
While here, there has been a comment in the code for quite a while noting a
difference in the standard between the text descr & grammar when it comes to
the syntax of case statements. Add more comments to explain why parsing it
as we do is in fact definitely the correct way (ie: the grammar wins arguments
like this...).
in prompts when expanded at prompt time, but all available for general use.
Many of the new ones are not available in SMALL shells (they work as normal
if assigned, but the shell does not set or use them - and there is no magic
in a SMALL shell (usually for install media.))
This fallback code wouldn't work anyway.
times(3) is an obsolete interface by getrusage(2) and gettimeofday(2).
In future it will be swiched to more modern interfaces.
No functional change intended.
parsing the way getopt(3) would, if only it could handle the (required)
-signumber and -signame options. This adds two "features" to kill,
-ssigname and -lstatus now work (ie: one word with all of the '-', the
option letter, and its value) and "--" also now works (kill -- -pid1 pid2
will not attempt to send the pid1 signal to pid2, but rather SIGTERM
to the pid1 process group and pid2). It is still the case that (apart
from --) at most 1 option is permitted (-l, -s, -signame, or -signumber.)
Note that we now have an ambiguity, -sname might mean "-s name" or
send the signal "sname" - if one of those turns out to be valid, that
will be accepted, otherwise the error message will indicate that "sname"
is not a valid signal name, not that "name" is not. Keeping the "-s"
and signal name as separate words avoids this issue.
Also caution: should someone be weird enough to define a new signal
name (as in the part after SIG) which is almost the same name as an
existing name that starts with 'S' by adding an extra 'S' prepended
(eg: adding a SIGSSYS) then the ambiguity problem becomes much worse.
In that case "kill -ssys" will be resolved in favour of the "-s"
flag being used (the more modern syntax) and would send a SIGSYS, rather
that a SIGSSYS. So don't do that.
While here, switch to using signalname(3) (bye bye NSIG, et. al.), add
some constipation, and show a little pride in formatting the signal names
for "kill -l" (and in the usage when appropriate -- same routine.) Respect
COLUMNS (POSIX XBD 8.3) as primary specification of the width (terminal width,
not number of columns to print) for kill -l, a very small value for COLUMNS
will cause kill -l output to list signals one per line, a very large
value will cause them all to be listed on one line.) (eg: "COLUMNS=1 kill -l")
TODO: the signal printing for "trap -l" and that for "kill -l"
should be switched to use a common routine (for the sh builtin versions.)
All changes of relevance here are to bin/kill - the (minor) changes to bin/sh
are only to properly expose the builtin version of getenv(3) so the builtin
version of kill can use it (ie: make its prototype available.)
caused by incorrect macro usage (ie: using the wrong one) which has
been in the sources since version 1.1 (ie: forever).
Like the previous (STACKSTRNUL) bug, the probability of this one
actually occurring has been infinitesimal but the LINENO code increases
that to infinitesimal and a smidgen... (or a few, depending upon usage).
Still, apparently that was enough, Kamil Rytarowski discovered that the
zsh configure script (damn competition!) managed to trigger this problem.
