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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2015-ecec668f09
2015-12-29 00:58:28.130612
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Name : mksh
Product : Fedora EPEL 5
Version : 52
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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Update Information:
mksh R52 ======== R52 is a strongly recommended bugfix release: * Move moving
external link from mksh(1) to the #ksh channel homepage linked therein * Make
setenv ���set -u���-safe and fix when invoked with no args * Make ���typeset -f���
output reentrant if name is a reserved word * Zero-pad seconds in ���time��� output
to align columns * Check signals and errorlevels from OS to be within bounds *
Quote and document ���;��� as PATH separator in some places * Simplify code to call
afree() even if arg is NULL * Fix tree-printing and reentrancy of multiple here
documents * Work around LP#1030581 by permitting exactly one space after *
Code quality work, cleanups * New code for here documents/strings with several
bugfixes * Stop using issetugid(2) for ��p checks, wrong tool for the job *
Reintroduce some -o posix changes lost in 2005, plus fixes * Make ���source��� into
a built-in command * Drop ���stop��� alias, lksh(1) functionality to auto-unalias
* Fix \u0000 ignored in $'���' and print * Improve portability of Build.sh *
Improve portability of testsuite * Fix tilde expansion for some substitutions
* Improve reparsing of ((���) |���) as ( (���) |���) * Fix test(1) not returning
evaluation errors * Fix ${*:+x} constructs (carstenh) * Make (( ��� )) into a
compound command (ormaaj) * Repair a few parameter substitution expansion
mistakes
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1291069 - mksh-52 is available
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1291069
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update mksh' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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