On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Glenn Fowler <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> the AT&T Software Technology ast alpha 2013-08-14 source release
> has been posted to the download site
> http://www.research.att.com/sw/download/alpha/
> the package names and md5 checksums are
> INIT ab18ae3ed80758d27adc2937d1877cae
> ast-ksh 7aade4e56a21b5fdbf64504cd2c5cd29
> the md5 sums should match the ones listed on the download page
>
> this alpha is limited to ast-ksh mainly to verify that recent
> portability/emulation changes are working
> in particular please report any problems with O_SEARCH and cd -@
> these will be addressed first so we can move on to other things
>
> we've gone through a couple of rounds of this because we want
> gnarly patches to be consolidated in one part of the code
> and in that process dgk+gsf have had a few disconnects with the patches
> basically we would really like to have the bulk of ast #ifdef's
> in the libast and a few other libs and leave the commands/plugins
> fairly clean
>
> changes since 2013-08-07
>
> :::::::: ksh93 ::::::::
>
> 13-08-12 --- Release ksh93v- ---
> 13-08-12 A bug in which background jobs where not removed after the
> user was notified about completion has been fixed.
> 13-08-11 A bug in which subscripts were evaluated twice for subscripts
> on the left hand side of assignments make by typeset has been fixed.
> 13-08-11 +namespace was modified so that namespace names can be a compound
> variable rather than just an identifier and namespace are no
> longer nested.
Doesn't work for math expressions:
ksh -o nounset -c 'namespace com.test.demo { integer i=5 ; function
printme { print $((i+i)) ; } ; } ; .com.test.demo.printme'
/home/irek/bin/ksh: .com.test.demo.printme: line 1: i: parameter not set
> 13-08-07 typeset -p (and print -v) now display the sort attribute for
> typeset -sF and typeset -sE.
Which sort attribute? You mean 'short' as in short integer or 'short
double' alias C99 float, right? :)
> :::::::: libast ::::::::
>
> 13-08-11 features/lib: add `lib fdatasync,fssync,sync' tests
> 13-08-11 features/fcntl.c: another round for { O_DIRECTORY O_SEARCH },
> stabilize ast extension values
> 13-08-11 port/intercept.c: add RATIFY() to check for paths with embeded
> directory fd refs
> 13-08-11 convert strcopy() usage to stpcpy(); strncopy() will not change
> 13-08-08 path/pathcanon.c: add PATH_ABSOLUTE to canonicalize relative path to
> absolute (rooted) path
> 13-08-08 comp/resolvepath.c: now a veneer to pathdev+PATH_ABSOLUTE...
> 13-08-08 string/stpcpy.c,string/stpncpy.c: add { stpcpy() stpncpy() }
> emulations
Thanks! now I can crush all the old Unices which don't care about POSIX :)
> 13-08-08 include/ast.h,path/pathcanon.c: add { /dev/file@flag1,.../path
> /dev/file@flag1,..././path } to pathdev
> 13-08-08 port/intercept.c: handle O_ASYNC anomalies in ast_openat()
> 13-08-07 sfio.h,sftmp.c: add SF_TMPFILE notification for sftmp() switch from
> buf to file
> 13-08-07 include/ast.h: add getconf("string") macro using astconf()
> 13-08-07 features/fcntl.c: add more macro guards to cover diffs between iffe
> time and compile time
> 13-08-07 features/limits.c: { _POSIX_NAME_MAX _POSIX_PATH_MAX } failsafes for
> systems (like darwin) that omit them
>
> :::::::: libcmd ::::::::
>
> 13-08-11 strcopy() => stpcpy()
readlink?
Irek
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