On 24 May 2013 19:55, Cedric Blancher <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/$n ; ;' > /home/ced/bin/ksh: cd: /dev/fd/11: [Bad address]
David, the bug report was the first about the problems with cd /dev/fd/$fd Ced -- Cedric Blancher <[email protected]> Institute Pasteur _______________________________________________ ast-developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-developers
