On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 3:40 AM, David Korn <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> We have posted the latest ast beta source packages.  I have been working
> on trying to provide a bash compatibility mode and have added a number of
> new features to ksh93 itself.  When the ksh is liked and run as bash,
> several bash features are enabled and
> bash rc files are processed.
>

Tried with my ~4k lines of bashrc (on Solaris 11.0 sparc). Found following
problems when running as bash:

- does not support `>&'
- does not support `type -P'
- does not `export -n'
- has no `bind' command
- does not support some `shopt' options
- PS1 magics does not work well. E.g.: \h, \V, \[
- In the interactive shell, $? is always 0 even if the latest command fails.
- The `alias' (with not arguments) output not compatible with bash.

-clark


> One of the major new additions, is programmable tab completion with the
> editor which is enabled in both bash mode and ksh mode.  Since this is
> complex and has little automatic testing, I would appreciated any feedback.
>  I am sure that I missed a few things.
>
> There are many other additions.  Read the RELEASE file in src/cmd/ksh93
> for more
> information.
>
> We would like to get an official release in 3Q14.
>
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