On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 04:28:02PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Andras Farkas wrote on Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 02:54:01PM -0400:
> 
> > In ksh.1, in the See Also section, this book is referenced:
> > Morris Bolsky and David Korn, The KornShell Command and Programming
> > Language, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall, 1995, ISBN 0131827006.
> > However, the book with that ISBN number has a different name, as
> > attested to here:
> > https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=545704&preflayout=flat
> > and by looking up the ISBN on Google and Amazon. (I also own the book
> > with this ISBN number, and can confirm those sources _are_ correct)
> > So if this book is to be referenced, the title given should be:
> > The New KornShell Command and Programming Language
> > The reference to it being a second edition then becomes optional, and
> > fine either way.
> > 
> > However, it may be worthwhile reverting the reference to be to the
> > first edition of the book:
> > https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=77009&preflayout=flat
> > The 2nd edition is about ksh93, while the first edition is about
> > ksh88.  The ksh clone in OpenBSD is not a ksh93 clone.
> > 
> > Relevant diff where this change occurred:
> > https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/bin/ksh/ksh.1.diff?r1=1.150&r2=1.151
> 
> Since jmc@ asked me to handle this, i committed the following patch.
> 
> Thanks for reporting,
>   Ingo
> 

much obliged!
jmc

> 
> CVSROOT:      /cvs
> Module name:  src
> Changes by:   [email protected]        2019/06/24 08:22:39
> 
> Modified files:
>       bin/ksh        : ksh.1 
> 
> Log message:
> Partial revert of rev. 1.151:
> Reference the First Edition (1989) of Bolsky/Korn which is about ksh88,
> the shell the OpenBSD ksh(1) descends from (via pdksh).
> The Second Edition (1995) of the book is about ksh93 which we don't provide.
> Pointed out by Andras Farkas on bugs@.
> 
> 
> Index: ksh.1
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/bin/ksh/ksh.1,v
> retrieving revision 1.205
> retrieving revision 1.206
> diff -u -r1.205 -r1.206
> --- ksh.1     21 Jun 2019 10:49:17 -0000      1.205
> +++ ksh.1     24 Jun 2019 14:22:39 -0000      1.206
> @@ -5545,10 +5545,12 @@
>  .Rs
>  .%A Morris Bolsky
>  .%A David Korn
> -.%B The KornShell Command and Programming Language, 2nd Edition
> -.%D 1995
> +.%B The KornShell Command and Programming Language
> +.%D First Edition 1989
>  .%I Prentice Hall
> -.%O ISBN 0131827006
> +.%O ISBN 0135169720
> +.\" The second edition of the above book (1995) is about ksh93,
> +.\" but the OpenBSD ksh is a decendant from ksh88 via pdksh.
>  .Re
>  .Rs
>  .%A Stephen G. Kochan

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