-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora EPEL Update Notification FEDORA-EPEL-2016-26322a0f5f 2016-03-25 18:26:12.128796 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : mksh Product : Fedora EPEL 5 Version : 52c Release : 1.el5 URL : https://www.mirbsd.org/mksh.htm Summary : MirBSD enhanced version of the Korn Shell Description : mksh is the MirBSD enhanced version of the Public Domain Korn shell (pdksh), a bourne-compatible shell which is largely similar to the original AT&T Korn shell. It includes bug fixes and feature improvements in order to produce a modern, robust shell good for interactive and especially script use, being a bourne shell replacement, pdksh successor and an alternative to the C shell.
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mksh R52c ========= R52c is a bugfix-only release: * Shave 200 bytes off .text by revisiting string pooling * Fix manpage for ditroff on Schillix * Use sed 1q instead of unportable head(1) * Implement underrun debugging tool for area-based memory allocator * Fix history underrun when first interactive command is entered * Do not misinterpret ���${0/}��� as ���${0//���, fixes segfault * Fix display problems with special parameters * Catch attempt to trim $* and $@ with ?, fixes segfault (Todd Miller did this in 2004 for ${x[*]} already, so just sync) * Fix ���command -p��� with -Vv to behave as POSIX requires * Fix recusive parser with active heredocs * Flush even syntax-failing or interrupted commands to history * Fix invalid memory access for ���'\0'��� in arithmetics * Explicitly reserve SIGEXIT and SIGERR for ksh * Catch missing here documents at EOF even under ���set -n��� * Document Austin#1015 handling (not considered a violation) * Fix buffer overread for empty nameref targets * Fix warnings pointed out by latest Debian gcc-snapshot * Document upcoming set +o changes * Expand testsuite for command/whence --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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