The following test packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:
* dash 0.5.12
DASH is a POSIX-compliant implementation of /bin/sh that aims to be
as small as possible. It does this without sacrificing speed where
possible. In fact, it is significantly faster than bash (the GNU
Bourne-Again SHell) for most tasks.
Please test this Base category shell as extensively as possible
(especially if you are a Cygwin package maintainer) as this
package is used in all installations.
I have it locally installed as my /bin/sh so it is used by most scripts,
cron jobs, and cygport builds, so it has and is getting frequent
exercise with no apparent issues so far.
If no issues are reported within a couple of weeks the package will be
upgraded to current.
For more information see the project home page:
http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/dash/
For changes since the previous release, see below;
for complete details see:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/dash/dash.git/log/?h=v0.5.12&showmsg=1
2022-12-11 0.5.12
error:
Remove USE_NORETURN ifdef
eval:
Always set exitstatus in evaltree
Check eflag after redirection error
Check nflag in evaltree instead of cmdloop
Do not cache value of eflag in evaltree
Prevent recursive PS4 expansion
Test evalskip before flipping status for NNOT
expand:
Add ifsfree to expand to fix a logic error that causes a buffer
over-read
Always quote caret when using fnmatch
Make glob(3) interruptible by SIGINT
input:
Clear unget on RESET
Remove special case for unget EOF
jobs:
Always reset SIGINT/SIGQUIT handlers
Block signals during tcsetpgrp
Fix waitcmd busy loop
Only block in waitcmd on first run
man:
fix formatting
parser:
Add VSBIT to ensure subtype is never zero
Fix VSLENGTH parsing with trailing garbage
Get rid of PEOA
redir:
Retry open64 on EINTR
shell:
Call CHECK_DECL on stat64
Disable glob again as it strips traing slashes
Enable fnmatch/glob by default
Fail if building --with-libedit and can't find libedit
Group readdir64/dirent64 with open64
