On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Michal Hlavinka <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 8.7.2013 12:43, Irek Szczesniak wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Michal Hlavinka <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>> On 8.7.2013 08:15, Dan Shelton wrote:
>>>> I'm trying to comprehend this: The ksh93 version in Fedora 19 is a
>>>> year old. Does anyone know why?
>>> simple answer, because it's latest stable release. KSH in Fedora
>>> {17,18,19,rawhide} is 2012-08-01 with some backported fixes.
>>>
>>> There is no newer stable release. There is no newer beta release.
>>
>> FYI ast-ksh.20130628 with Roland's fixes for Solaris is *stable*.
>
> 1) our tests does not share this opinion (I did not try Roland's fixes)

Erm... which issues did you find ? Email, please... and much and many
as you can... we can't fix what we can't see... ;-/

[snip]
> There was no request (in bugzilla) for this so far, so I did not look at
> this yet. Once I have a little more time I'll check that patch and consider
> whether it's good idea to include it or not.

* Notes about my poll(1) patch for ksh93u+
(http://lists.research.att.com/pipermail/ast-developers/2012q3/001735.html):
- It was written during ksh93u+ development - more or less
specifically for ast-ksh.2012-08-01. There have been later versions of
the builtin but that mainly affects "cosmetic changes" and some
testsuite stuff (e.g. addition of a much more sophisticated
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/builtin_poll.sh etc.)
- The "risk" should be minimal... you basically have one extra shell
builtin... you can only hit it when you explicitly use it (and so far
noone has tripped over incompatibilities. Shell functions have
precedence over builtins, e.g. ...
-- snip --
ksh -c 'poll --version ; poll() { print xchicken ; } ; poll --version'
  version         poll (AT&T Labs Research) 2012-08-16
xchicken
-- snip --
... which means existing scripts with a shell function "poll" won't
trip over this...)

----

Bye,
Roland

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