On 24 May 2013 08:54, Glenn Fowler <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> the AT&T Software Technology ast alpha 2013-05-24 source and binary release
> has been posted to the download site
> http://www.research.att.com/sw/download/alpha/
> the package names and md5 checksums are
> INIT ed29bc9017e7bed828b66977c474f3dc
> ast-ksh ec93af891a10071d65afe581be31df30
> the md5 sums should match the ones listed on the download page
> if not then don't download
>
> this alpha includes updated -last { aso cdt vmalloc }
> which should be in much better shape in multi-threaded apps
>
> these updates represent a flurry of activity surrounding the
> retirement of long time ast colleague Phong Vo (moving on to google)
> and making sure all of his latest stuff is properly merged into ast
>
> since a lot of his code touches the heart of ast the merging is
> a meticulous process and has taken up most of my ast time
> the biggest effect w.r.t. the list has been to make note of but
> not act on any non-ksh patches -- once the merge is done we'll start
> looking at those patches (we've learned over the years that even the
> smallest innocent patch has the ability to wreak havoc on a release --
> debugging kpv merged code is hard enough -- adding in other changes
> at the same time could tip the process into chaos)
>
> the next ast-open alpha will be early next week
> that will include updated -lvcodex and vczip
>
> a corresponding uwin alpha will be about 2 weeks away
Using directory file descriptors to change the cwd doesn't work
anymore on Linux:
ksh -c 'redirect {n}</etc ; cd /dev/fd/$n ; ;'
/home/ced/bin/ksh: cd: /dev/fd/11: [Bad address]
Ced
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Cedric Blancher <[email protected]>
Institute Pasteur
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