MirBSD Korn Shell
mksh is the MirBSD enhanced version of the Public Domain Korn
shell (pdksh), a Bourne-compatible shell which is largely si‐
milar to the original AT&T Korn shell; mksh is the only pdksh
derivate currently being actively developed. It includes bug
fixes and feature improvements, in order to produce a modern,
robust shell good for interactive and especially script use.
mksh has UTF-8 support (in substring operations and the Emacs
editing mode) and, while R40e corresponds to OpenBSD 5.1-cur‐
rent ksh (without GNU bash-like PS1 and fancy character clas‐
ses), adheres to SUSv4 and is much more robust. The code has
been cleaned up and simplified, bugs fixed, standards compli‐
ance added, and several enhancements (for extended compatibi‐
lity to other modern shells – as well as a couple of its own)
are available. It has sensible defaults as usual with BSD.
Authors:
Thorsten Glaser
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Source Files
| Filename | Size | Changed |
|---|---|---|
| mksh-R50f.tgz | 0000377797 369 KB | |
| mksh-vendor-mkshrc.patch | 0000001140 1.11 KB | |
| mksh.changes | 0000012738 12.4 KB | |
| mksh.spec | 0000005993 5.85 KB |
Revision 12 (latest revision is 25)
Dominique Leuenberger (dimstar_suse)
accepted
request 298252
from
Guido Berhoerster (gberh)
(revision 12)
- mention vendor modifications in manpage as requested by upstream
- update to version 50f
- [tg] OpenBSD sync: handle integer base out of band like ksh93
does
- [tg] Protect standard code (predefined aliases, internal code,
aliases and functions in dot.mkshrc) from being overridden by
aliases and, in some cases, shell functions (i.e. permit
overriding but ignore it)
- [tg] Implement GNU bash’s enable for dot.mkshrc using magic
aliases to redirect the builtins to external utilities; this
differs from GNU bash in that enable takes precedence over
functions
- [tg] Move unaliasing an identifier when defining a POSIX-style
function with the same name into lksh, as compatibility kludge
- [tg] Korn shell style functions now have locally scoped shell
options
- [tg] Add a patch marker for vendor patch versioning to mksh.1
- [tg] SECURITY: make unset HISTFILE actually work
- [tg] Document some more issues with the current history code
- [tg] Remove some unused code
- [tg] RCSID-only sync with OpenBSD, for bogus and irrelevant
changes
- [tg] Also disable field splitting for alias 'local=\typeset'
- [tg] Fix read -n-1 to not be identical to read -N-1
- [tg] Several fixes and improvements to lksh(1) and mksh(1)
manpages
- [tg] More code (int → size_t), comment and testsuite fixes
- [tg] Make dot.mkshrc more robust (LP#1441853)
- [tg] Fix issues with IFS='\' read, found by edualbus
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