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author | Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> | 2001-04-06 19:14:31 +0000 |
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committer | Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> | 2009-09-12 16:46:53 +0000 |
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@@ -1,3 +1,559 @@ +This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.05-release, +and the previous version, bash-2.05-beta2. + +1. Changes to Bash + +a. Make sure we note that the first line of a multi-line command was not + saved in the history if the tests for HISTCONTROL succeed, but the + HISTIGNORE check fails. + +b. Fixed a bug in the pattern matching code that caused `[' to be treated + as a special character inside a `[...]' bracket expression. + +c. Fixed a bug in the pattern matching code that caused `]' to terminate + a bracket expression even if it was the first character after the `[' + (or a leading `!' or `^'). + +d. Made a small change to report a more user-friendly error message if + execve(2) fails because of an error with the interpreter in a script + with a leading `#! interpreter'. + +e. If the OS does not support an exec(2) magic number of `#!', make sure we + have a non-null interpreter name before attempting to execute it. + +f. Fixed a bug that caused the shell process to end up in a different + process group than the controlling terminal if a job-control shell was + run with `exec' in the startup files. + +g. When started in POSIX mode, either by `bash --posix', `bash -o posix', or + `sh', $SHELLOPTS includes `posix' and POSIXLY_CORRECT is set. + +h. Fixed a problem that caused the `\W' prompt string escape sequence to + expand to nothing when $PWD was `//'. + +i. The `bashbug' shell script no longer uses $(...) command substitution. + +j. When `set' is invoked without options in POSIX mode, it no longer prints + the names and definitions of shell functions. + +2. Changes to Readline + +a. rl_set_paren_blink_timeout() is now documented. + +b. Corrected history.3 man page: `$' is not in the default value of + history_word_delimiters. + +c. If a hook function assigned to rl_event_hook sets rl_done to a non-zero + value, rl_read_key() now immediately returns '\n' (which is assumed to + be bound to accept-line). + +3. New Features in Bash + +a. The `>&word' redirection now works in POSIX mode as it does by default, + since POSIX.2 leaves it unspecified. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.05-beta2, +and the previous version, bash-2.05-beta1. + +1. Changes to Bash + +a. Fixed a bug in the arithmetic evaluation code so that a^=b is supported. + +b. Fixed startup so posixly_correct is retained across subshells begun to + execute scripts without a leading `#!'. + +c. Fixed a bug that caused $(< file) to not work in a (...) subshell. + +d. Added config support for Linux running on the IBM S390. + +e. Fixed a bug that caused bash to get its input pointer out of sync when + reading commands through a pipe and running a command with standard + input redirected from a file. + +f. Made a change so that command completion now makes about half as many + stat(2) calls when searching the $PATH. + +g. Fixed a bug that caused variable assignments preceding `return' to not + be propagated to the shell environment in POSIX mode. + +h. Fixed a bug with ${parameter[:]?word} -- tilde expansion was not performed + on `word'. + +i. In POSIX mode, `break' and `continue' do not complain and return success + if called when the shell is not executing a loop. + +j. Fixed `bash -o posix' to work the same as `bash --posix'. + +k. Fixed a bug where variable assignments preceding `eval' or `source/.' + would not show up in the environment exported to subshells run by the + commands. + +l. In POSIX mode, shells started to execute command substitutions inherit + the value of the `-e' option from their parent shell. + +m. In POSIX mode, aliases are expanded even in non-interactive shells. + +n. Changed some of the job control messages to display the text required by + POSIX.2 when the shell is in POSIX mode. + +o. Fixed a bug in `test' that caused it to occasionally return incorrect + results when non-numeric arguments were supplied to `-t'. + +2. Changes to Readline + +a. Some changes were made to avoid gcc warnings with -Wall. + +b. rl_get_keymap_by_name now finds keymaps case-insensitively, so + `set keymap EMACS' works. + +c. The history file writing and truncation functions now return a useful + status on error. + +d. Fixed a bug that could cause applications to dereference a NULL pointer + if a NULL second argument was passed to history_expand(). + +3. New Features in Bash + +a. doc/readline.3 has been moved to the readline distribution. + +4. New Features in Readline + +a. New function, rl_get_screen_size (int *rows, int *columns), returns + readline's idea of the screen dimensions. + +b. The timeout in rl_gather_tyi (readline keyboard input polling function) + is now settable via a function (rl_set_keyboard_input_timeout()). + +c. Renamed the max_input_history variable to history_max_entries; the old + variable is maintained for backwards compatibility. + +d. The list of characters that separate words for the history tokenizer is + now settable with a variable: history_word_delimiters. The default + value is as before. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.05-beta1, +and the previous version, bash-2.05-alpha1. + +1. Changes to Bash + +a. Changes to allow shared library and object building on the GNU Hurd. + +b. Fixes to the way exported functions are placed into the environment and + cached. + +c. The globbing library once again respects locales when processing ranges + in bracket expressions while doing pattern matching. + +d. System-specific configuration changes for: Tru 64, Interix + +e. Bashbug now uses /usr/bin/editor as one of the editing alternatives, and + will use mktemp(1) or tempfile(1), if present, for temporary file creation. + +f. Bash no longer performs a binary file check on a script argument that's + really a tty (like /dev/fd/0 or /dev/stdin). + +g. Fixed a bug in the execution of shell scripts that caused the effects of + $BASH_ENV to be undone in some cases. + +h. Fixed several bugs that made `bash [-i] /dev/stdin' not work correctly. + +i. Several changes to the job control code to avoid some signal state + manipulation. + +j. The Bash malloc no longer blocks signals as often, which should make it + faster. + +k. Fixed a parsing bug that did not allow backslash to escape a single quote + inside a $'...' construct. + +l. Fixed a bug that caused things like ${var:=$'value'} to be parsed + incorrectly. This showed up in newer versions of autoconf. + +m. Fixed a bug in the bash-specific readline initialization that caused + key bindings to bash-specific function names appearing in .inputrc to + not be honored. + +n. Bash now sets the file descriptor it uses to save the file descriptor + opened on a shell script to close on exec. + +o. Fixed a bug in the prompt string decoding that caused it to misbehave + when presented an octal sequence of fewer than three characters. + +p. Fixed the `test' builtin to return an error if `[' is supplied a single + argument that is not `]'. + +q. Fixed a bug that caused subshells started to run executable shell scripts + without a leading `#!' to incorrectly inherit an argument list preceding + a shell builtin (like such a script called from a script sourced with `.', + where there were variable assignments preceding the `.' command) + +r. Fixed a bug that caused changes to variables supplied in an assignment + statement preceding a shell builtin to not be honored (like a script + run with `.'). + +s. HOSTTYPE, OSTYPE, and MACHTYPE are set only if they do not have values + when the shell is started. + +t. Fixed a bug that caused SIGINT to kill shell scripts after the script + called `wait'. + +u. The `fc' builtin now tries to create its temporary files in the directory + named by $TMPDIR. + +v. Bash no longer calls any Readline functions or uses any Readline variables + not declared in readline.h. + +w. Fixed a bug that caused some substitutions involving $@ to not be split + correctly, especially expansions of the form ${paramterOPword}. + +x. SSH2_CLIENT is now treated like SSH_CLIENT and not auto-exported if it + appears in the initial environment. + +y. Fixed a couple of problems with shell scripts without a leading `#!' + being executed out of shell functions that could cause core dumps if + such a script attempted to execute `return'. + +z. Fixed a problem with the `-nt' and `-ot' binary operators for the + `test/[' builtin and the `[[' conditional command that caused wrong + return values if one of the file arguments did not exist. + +aa. Fixed a bug that caused non-interactive shells which had previously + executed `shopt -s expand_aliases' to fail to expand aliases in a + command like `(command) &'. + +2. Changes to Readline + +a. Changes to make most (but not yet all -- there is still crlf()) of the + exported readline functions declared in readline.h have an rl_ prefix. + +b. More `const' changes in function arguments, mostly for completion + functions. + +c. Fixed a bug in rl_forward that could cause the point to be set to before + the beginning of the line in vi mode. + +d. Fixed a bug in the callback read-char interface to make it work when a + readline function pushes some input onto the input stream with + rl_execute_next (like the incremental search functions). + +e. Fixed a file descriptor leak in the history file manipulation code that + was tripped when attempting to truncate a non-regular file (like + /dev/null). + +f. Some existing variables are now documented and part of the public + interface (declared in readline.h): rl_explict_arg, rl_numeric_arg, + rl_editing_mode, rl_last_func. + +g. Renamed rltty_set_default_bindings to rl_tty_set_default_bindings and + crlf to rl_crlf, so there are no public functions declared in readline.h + without an `rl_' prefix. The old functions still exist for backwards + compatibility. + +3. New Features in Bash + +a. A new loadable builtin, realpath, which canonicalizes and expands symlinks + in pathname arguments. + +b. When `set' is called without options, it prints function defintions in a + way that allows them to be reused as input. This affects `declare' and + `declare -p' as well. + +4. New Features in Readline + +a. New application-callable function rl_set_prompt(const char *prompt): + expands its prompt string argument and sets rl_prompt to the result. + +b. New application-callable function rl_set_screen_size(int rows, int cols): + public method for applications to set readline's idea of the screen + dimensions. + +c. The history example program (examples/histexamp.c) is now built as one + of the examples. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.05-alpha1, +and the previous version, bash-2.04-release. + +1. Changes to Bash + +a. A fix was made to allow newlines in compond array assignments. + +b. configure now checks for real-time signals with unusable values. + +c. Interactive shells no longer exit if a substitution fails because of an + unset variable within a sourced file. + +d. Fixed a problem with incorrect matching of extended glob patterns when + doing pattern substitution. + +e. `{' is now quoted by the completion code when it appears in a filename. + +f. Fixed an error in pattern matching that caused the matcher to not + correctly skip the rest of a bracket expression after a character + matched. + +g. Fixed a bug in the IFS word splitting code to make a non-whitespace IFS + character preceded by IFS whitespace part of the current delimiter rather + than generating a separate field. + +h. The {!prefix@} expansion now generates separate words, analogous to $@, + when double-quoted. + +i. Command substitution now ignores NUL bytes in the command output, and the + parser ignores them on input. + +j. A fix was made to the job control code to prevent hanging processes when + the shell thinks background processes are running but the kernel returns + -1/ECHILD from waitpid(). + +k. `pwd' now prints an error message if the write fails when displaying the + current directory. + +l. When in POSIX mode, the shell prints trap dispostions without a leading + `SIG' in the signal specification. + +m. Fixed a parser bug that caused the current command's line count to be + messed up by a compound array assignment. + +n. Fixed a bug in the unwind-protect code that caused bad behavior on machines + where ints and pointers are not the same size. + +o. System-specific configure changes for: MacOS X. + +p. Changes for Cygwin to translate \r\n and \r to \n and to set file + descriptors used for reading input to text mode in various places. + +q. Fixed a bug that caused `!' to occasionally not be honored when in + a (...) subshell. + +r. Bash no longer assumes that getcwd() will return any useful error message + in the buffer passed as an argument if the call fails. + +s. The `source', `.', and `fc' builtins no longer check whether a file is + binary before reading commands from it. + +t. Subshells no longer turn off job control when they exit, since that + sometimes resulted in the terminal being reset to the wrong process + group. + +u. The history code no longer tries to save the second and subsequent lines + of a multi-line command if the first line was not saved. + +v. The history saving code now does a better job of saving blank lines in a + multi-line command. + +w. Removed a `feature' that made `ulimit' silently translate `unlimited' to + the current hard limit, which obscured some kernel error returns. + +x. Fixed the grammar so that `}' is recognized as a reserved word after + another reserved word, rather than requiring a `;' or newline. This + means that constructs like + + { { echo a b c ; } } + + work as expected. + +y. Conditional commands ([[...]]) now perform tilde expansion on their + arguments. + +z. Noted in the documentation that `set -a' will cause functions to be + exported if they are defined after `set -a' is executed. + +aa. When an interactive login shell starts, if $PWD and $HOME refer to the + same directory but are not the same string, $PWD is set to $HOME. + +bb. Fixed `printf' to handle invalid floating point numbers better. + +cc. Temporary files are now created with random filenames, to improve security. + +dd. The readline initialization code now binds the custom bash functions and + key bindings after the readline defaults are set up. + +ee. Fixed the `source' builtin to no longer overwrite a shell function's + argument list, even if the sourced file changes the positional parameters. + +ff. A bug fix was made in the expansion of `$*' in contexts where it should + not be split, like assignment statements. + +gg. Fixed a bug in the parameter substring expansion to handle conditional + arithmetic expressions ( exp ? val1 : val2 ) without cutting the expression + off at the wrong `:'. + +hh. The `<>' redirection is no longer subject to the current setting of + `noclobber', as POSIX.2 specifies. + +ii. Fixed a bug in the conditional command parsing code that caused expressions + in parentheses to occasionally be parsed incorrectly. + +jj. Fixed a bug in the ((...)) arithmetic command to allow do...done or + {...} to follow the )) without an intervening list terminator. + +kk. `printf' now treats `\E' the same as `\e' when performing backslash escape + expansion for the `%b' format specifier. + +ll. When in POSIX mode, the shell no longer searches the current directory for + a file to be sourced with `.' or `source' if `.' is not in $PATH. + +mm. Interactive comments are no longer turned off when POSIX mode is disabled. + +nn. The UID, EUID, HOSTNAME variables are not set if they are in the shell's + environment when it starts up. + +oo. Fixed a bug in the `command' builtin so the effect of a command like + `command exec 4<file' is as if the `command' had been omitted. + +pp. ${foo[@]} and ${foo[*]} now work as in ksh93 if `foo' is not an array + variable. + +qq. ${#foo[X]}, where X is 0, @, or *, now work as in ksh93 if `foo' is not + an array variable. + +rr. The shell's idea of an absolute pathname now takes into account a + possible drive specification on Cygwin and other Windows systems. + +ss. Fixed a bug which caused incorrect parsing of some multi-character + constructs if they were split across input lines with backslash-newline + line continuation. + +tt. Fixed a bug that caused restricted shell mode to be set inappropriately + when trying to execute a shell script without a leading `#!'. + +uu. Shell function definitions no longer require that the body be a group + command ( {...} ), as POSIX.2 requires. + +vv. The `cd' and `pwd' builtins now process symlinks in pathnames internally + and should require many fewer calls to getcwd(). + +ww. Fixed a bug that caused a pipeline's process group to be set incorrectly + if one of the pipeline elements contained a command substitution. + +xx. Fixed a bug that caused core dumps when expanding the value of HISTIGNORE. + +yy. The output of `set' is now quoted using $'...' so invisible characters are + displayed as escape sequences. + +zz. Fixed the help text for `unset', since PATH and IFS may both be unset. + +aaa. The shell no longer puts directory names into the command hash table. + +bbb. Fixed a bug in `read' that caused it to occasionally free memory twice if + it was interrupted after reading a large amount of data. + +ccc. Assignment statements that attempt to assign values to readonly variables + now cause the command to return an error status. + +ddd. Fixed a bug that could cause incorrect output if a $(<file) construct was + interrupted. + +eee. GROUPS and FUNCNAME now return an error status when assignment is + attempted, but may be unset (in which case they lose their special + properties). In all respects except unsetting, they are readonly. + +fff. The string-to-integer conversion code now ignores trailing whitespace in + the string, even if strtol(3) does not. + +ggg. The tcsh magic-space function now does a better job of inserting the + space close to where the point was before the history expansion, rather + than just appending it. + +hhh. Fixed a bug which caused a file sourced from an interactive shell to + fill up the jobs table if it ran lots of jobs. + +iii. Fixed a bug in the parameter pattern substitution code to avoid infinite + recursion on zero-length matches. + +2. Changes to Readline + +a. When setting the terminal attributes on systems using `struct termio', + readline waits for output to drain before changing the attributes. + +b. A fix was made to the history word tokenization code to avoid attempts to + dereference a null pointer. + +c. Readline now defaults rl_terminal_name to $TERM if the calling application + has left it unset, and tries to initialize with the resultant value. + +d. Instead of calling (*rl_getc_function)() directly to get input in certain + places, readline now calls rl_read_key() consistently. + +e. Fixed a bug in the completion code that allowed a backslash to quote a + single quote inside a single-quoted string. + +f. rl_prompt is no longer assigned directly from the argument to readline(), + but uses memory allocated by readline. This allows constant strings to + be passed to readline without problems arising when the prompt processing + code wants to modify the string. + +g. Fixed a bug that caused non-interactive history searches to return the + wrong line when performing multiple searches backward for the same string. + +h. Many variables, function arguments, and function return values are now + declared `const' where appropriate, to improve behavior when linking with + C++ code. + +i. The control character detection code now works better on systems where + `char' is unsigned by default. + +j. The vi-mode numeric argument is now capped at 999999, just like emacs mode. + +k. The Function, CPFunction, CPPFunction, and VFunction typedefs have been + replaced with a set of specific prototyped typedefs, though they are + still in the readline header files for backwards compatibility. + +m. Nearly all of the (undocumented) internal global variables in the library + now have an _rl_ prefix -- there were a number that did not, like + screenheight, screenwidth, alphabetic, etc. + +n. The ding() convenience function has been renamed to rl_ding(), though the + old function is still defined for backwards compatibility. + +o. The completion convenience functions filename_completion_function, + username_completion_function, and completion_matches now have an rl_ + prefix, though the old names are still defined for backwards compatibility. + +p. The functions shared by readline and bash (linkage is satisfied from bash + when compiling with bash, and internally otherwise) now have an sh_ prefix. + +q. Changed the shared library creation procedure on Linux and BSD/OS 4.x so + that the `soname' contains only the major version number rather than the + major and minor numbers. + +r. Fixed a redisplay bug that occurred when the prompt spanned more than one + physical line and contained invisible characters. + +3. New Features in Bash + +a. Added a new `--init-file' invocation argument as a synonym for `--rcfile', + per the new GNU coding standards. + +b. The /dev/tcp and /dev/udp redirections now accept service names as well as + port numbers. + +c. `complete' and `compgen' now take a `-o value' option, which controls some + of the aspects of that compspec. Valid values are: + + default - perform bash default completion if programmable + completion produces no matches + dirnames - perform directory name completion if programmable + completion produces no matches + filenames - tell readline that the compspec produces filenames, + so it can do things like append slashes to + directory names and suppress trailing spaces + +4. New Features in Readline + +a. The blink timeout for paren matching is now settable by applications. + +b. _rl_executing_macro has been renamed to rl_executing_macro, which means + it's now part of the public interface. + +c. Readline has a new variable, rl_readline_state, which is a bitmap that + encapsulates the current state of the library; intended for use by + callbacks and hook functions. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.04-release, and the previous version, bash-2.04-beta5. @@ -480,7 +1036,7 @@ t. The SSH_CLIENT environment variable is no longer auto-exported. u. A bug that caused redirections with (...) subshells to be performed in the wrong order was fixed. -v. A bug that occasionally caused inaapropriate expansion of assignment +v. A bug that occasionally caused inappropriate expansion of assignment statements in compound array assignments was fixed. w. The code that parses the words in a compound array assignment was |