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
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Cedric Blancher <[email protected]>
Institute Pasteur
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