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.
> 13-08-07  typeset -p (and print -v) now display the sort attribute for
>           typeset -sF and typeset -sE.

str=$( ) is seriously broken if there are more than a few megabytes
put into str. I'm still trying to debug the issue. Something cuts the
data off in the middle.

Irek
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