After almost 30 years, finally do the right thing and read $HOME/.profile
rather than .profile in the initial directory (it was that way in version
1.1 ...) All other ash descendants seem to have fixed this long ago.
While here, copy a feature from FreeBSD which allows "set +p" (if a
shell run by a setuid process with the -p flag is privileged) to reset
the privileges. Once done (the set +p) it cannot be undone (a later
set -p sets the 'p' flag, but that's all it does) - that just becomes a
one bit storage location.
We do this, as (also copying from FreeBSD, and because it is the right
thing to do) we don't run .profile in a privileged shell - FreeBSD run
/etc/suid_profile in that case (not a good name, it also applies to setgid
shells) but I see no real need for that, we run /etc/profile in any case,
anything that would go in /etc/suid_profile can just go in /etc/profile
instead (with suitable guards so the commands only run in priv'd shells).
One or two minor DEBUG mode changes (notably having priv'd shells identify
themselves in the DEBUG trace) and sh.1 changes with doc of the "set +p"
change, the effect that has on $PSc and a few other wording tweaks.
XXX pullup -9 (not -8, this isn't worth it for the short lifetime
that has left - if it took 28+ years for anyone to notice this, it
cannot be having all that much effect).
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).
Mostly use number() (no longer implemented using atoi()) when an
unsigned integer is required, but use strtoXXX() when a conversion
is wanted, without the possibility or error (like setting OPTIND
and RANDOM). Always init OPTIND to 1 when sh starts (overriding
anything in environ.)
some other install media, mini-roots, etc.) It is unlikely that
such a shell will be used for much script debugging (and the old -x
still exists of course) and it adds a little bloat, so, zap...
The ancient unused (unrelated) xioctl() function is gone as well
(from all shells).
output to the stderr which existed when the -X option was (last) enabled.
It also enables tracing by enabling -x (and when reset, +X, also resets
the 'x' flag (+x)). Note that it is still -x/+x which actually
enables/disables the trace output. Hence "apparent variant" - what -X
actually does (aside from setting -x) is just to lock the trace output,
rather than having it follow wherever stderr is later redirected.
Absent other information, the shell should be interactive if reading
from stdin, and stdin and stderr are ttys, not stdin and stdout.
So sayeth the great lord posix.
sh +c "command string" no longer works (it must be -c)
sh +o and sh -o no longer work (if you could call what they did
before working.) nb: this is without an option name.
-ooo Opt1 Opt2 Opt3 no longer works (set & cmd line), this should be
-o Opt1 -o Opt2 -o Opt3 (same with +ooo of course).
-oOpt is now supported - option value (name of option in
this case) immediately following -o (or +o).
(as with other commands that use std opt parsing)
Both set comamnd and command line.
In addition, the output from "set +o" has shrunk dramatically, by borrowing
a trick from ksh93 (but implemented in a more traditional syntax).
"set +o" is required to produce a command (or commands) which when executed
later, will return all options to the state they were in when "set +o"
was done. Previously that was done by generating a set command, with
every option listed (set -o opt +o other-opt ...) to set them all back
to their current setings. Now we have a new "magic option" ("default")
which sets all options to their default values, so now set +o output
need only be "set -o default -o changed-opt ..." (only the options that
have been changed from their default values need be explicitly mentioned.)
The definition of "default value" for this is the value the shell set the
option to, after startup, after processing the command line (with any
flags, or -o option type settings), but before beginning processing any
user input (incuding startup files, like $ENV etc).
Anyone can execute "set -o default" of course, but only from a "set"
command (it makes no sense at all as a -o option to sh). This also
causes "set +o" to be slightly more useful as a general command, as
ignoring the "set -o default" part of the result, it lists just those
options that have been altered after sh startup. There is no +o default.
There isn't an option called "default" at all...
This causes some of the commented out text from sh.1 to become uncommented.
compiled for DEBUG.)
Add debug builtin command, and corresponding -D command line option.
As usual, for DEBUG related stuff, read the source for info, that's
all there is about this.
This completes the infrastructure changes for the updated DEBUG TRACE
mechanism, so now converting the rest of the shell's internal tracing
can happen as desired - piecemeal.
variable (with its current value set at 20160401) as discussed on
current-users and tech-userlevel. This also includes the necessary
support to implement it properly (particularly the unexportable
part) and adds options to the export command to support unexportable
variables. Also implement the "posix" option (no single letter
equivalent) which gets its default value from whether or not
POSIXLY_CORRECT is set in the environment when the shell starts
(but can be changed just like any other option using -o and +o on
the command line, or the set builtin command.) While there, fix
all uses of options so it is possible to have options that have a
short (one char) name, and no long name, just as it has been possible
to have options with a long name and no short name, though there
are currently none (with no long name). For now, the only use of
the posix option is to control whether ${ENV} is read at startup
by a non-interactive shell, so changing it with set is not usful
- that might change in the future. (from kre@)
- ansification
- format of output of jobs command (etc)
- job identiers %+, %- etc
- $? and $(...)
- correct quoting of output of set, export -p and readonly -p
- differentiation between nornal and 'posix special' builtins
- correct behaviour (posix) for errors on builtins and special builtins
- builtin printf and kill
- set -o debug (if compiled with DEBUG)
- cd src obj (as ksh - too useful to do without)
- unset -e name, remove non-readonly variable from export list.
(so I could unset -e PS1 before running the test shell...)
- the 3 argument version of getopts would not reset properly
- OPTARG did not get cleared after a non argument option was found
- OPTIND was not set properly after a non argument option.
This is used to implement the POSIX behavior when OPTIND=1
- Call setvarsafe instead of setvar. If one ran
"getopts optstr badvariable"
where badvariable contained an illegal variable name, there was no way
to recover, since setvar() would longjmp on the error.
1. OPTIND value was not computed correctly when the argument was part of the
option string (i.e. for "l:" "-l 1" was working "-l1" was not). (PR/2505).
2. OPTARG was not being unset in case of errors [in the non POSIX error case].
3. optvar could be set to random values.
4. Option string starting with a : was not treated specially as POSIX
specifies (if the option string starts with a :, then there is no
error printed when there are missing option arguments or illegal options,
and OPTARG and optvar are being set specially).
5. Implemented getopts "opts" optvar [arg]. The optional argument case
was not implemented.
To do:
- what does Posix say about resetting the getopts state? Bash does it
by setting OPTIND=0; is that correct? Should we be doing the same thing?
- should we be using getopt(3) for everything internal to the shell? Is that
feasible because we might need to handle multiple invocations at once.
kre