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
- Developed at shells
- Sources inherited from project openSUSE:Factory
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Source Files
| Filename | Size | Changed |
|---|---|---|
| mksh-R54.tgz | 0000395538 386 KB | |
| mksh-vendor-mkshrc.patch | 0000001140 1.11 KB | |
| mksh.changes | 0000024862 24.3 KB | |
| mksh.spec | 0000007581 7.4 KB |
Revision 13 (latest revision is 25)
Dominique Leuenberger (dimstar_suse)
accepted
request 460024
from
Dr. Werner Fink (WernerFink)
(revision 13)
- Avoid deprecated API for errors and signals
- Be sure to use a clean history file
- Make errors ini test suite fatal
- Avoid -flto as this breaks even with gcc 6.3.1 20170202
- Use screen to provide a tty for test suite scripts
- Update to version R54
R54 is a bugfix release with moderate new features:
[tg] Simplify and improve code and manual page
[tg] Try GCC 5’s new -malign-data=abi
[tg] Allow interrupting builtin cat even on fast devices (LP#1616692)
[tg] Update to Unicode 9.0.0
[Andreas Buschka] Correct English spelling
[tg] Handle set -e-related error propagation in || and && constructs correctly
[tg] Initialise memory for RNG even when not targeting Valgrind
[tg] Shrink binary size
[Brian Callahan] Improve support for the contemporary pcc compiler
[tg] Fix side effects with lazy evaluation; spotted by ormaaj
[tg] New flags -c (columnise), -l, -N for the print builtin
[Larry Hynes] Fix English, spelling mistakes, typos in the manpage
[tg, ormaah] Return 128+SIGALRM if read -t times out, like GNU bash
[Martijn Dekker] Install both manpages from Build.sh
[Martijn Dekker] Document case changes are ASCII-only
[Ronald G. Minnich, Elbing Miss, Álvaro Jurado, tg] Begin porting to Harvey-OS and APEX (similar to Plan 9 and APE)
[KO Myung-Hun] More infrastructure for the OS/2 (EMX, KLIBC) port
R53a is a snapshot/feature release:
[lintian] Fix spelling
[tg] Unbreak multi-line command history broken by history flush
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