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-R50.tgz | 0000372461 364 KB | |
| mksh-vendor-mkshrc.patch | 0000001192 1.16 KB | |
| mksh.changes | 0000004930 4.81 KB | |
| mksh.spec | 0000005613 5.48 KB |
Revision 5 (latest revision is 25)
Stephan Kulow (coolo)
accepted
request 239021
from
Guido Berhoerster (gberh)
(revision 5)
- update to version 50
- [tg] Fix initial IFS whitespace not being ignored when
expanding
- [tg] MKSH_BINSHREDUCED no longer mistakenly enables brace
expansion
- [tg] Explain more clearly Vi input mode limitations in the
manpage
- [tg] Improve error reporting of the check.pl script (which
needs a maintainer since I don’t speak any perl(1), really),
for lewellyn
- [tg] Use $TMPDIR in test.sh for scratch space
- [tg, Polynomial-C] Check that the scratch space is not mounted
noexec
- [pekster, jilles, tg] Use termcap(5) names, not terminfo(5)
names, in tput(1) examples, for improved portability (e.g. to
MidnightBSD)
- [tg] Avoid C99 Undefined Behaviour in mirtoconf LFS test
(inspired by Debian #742780)
- [tg] Fix ${!foo} for when foo is unset
- [tg] Improve nameref error checking (LP#1277691)
- [tg] Fix readonly bypass found by Bert Münnich
- [Ryan Schmidt] Improved system reporting for Mac OS X
- [nDuff] Explain better [[ extglob handling in the manpage
- [tg] Remove arr=([index]=value) syntax due to regressions
- [tg] IFS-split arithmetic expansions as per POSIX 201x
- [OpenBSD] Add more detailed Authors section to manpage
- [tg] Fix set ±p issue for good: drop privs unless requested
- [tg] Improve signal handling and use a more canonical probing
order
- [tg] Fix return values $? and ${PIPESTATUS[*]} interaction with
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