Re: [ast-users] Thank you for the grep builtin!

great - any soft numbers on improvement? On Thu, 6 Jun 2013 11:23:27 +0200 Lionel Cons wrote: > I'd like say "Thank you" for adding the grep builtin to ksh93. > Today we figured out that this gave a major performance boost and > helped a lot working around shoddy or broken grep implementations.

Re: [ast-users] set -u updates in POSIX.1-2008 TC1

> "exit status of between 1 and 125 inclusive" - doesn't ksh93 return > exit status between 0 and 255? Why are 126 and 127 omitted? They have a special meaning 0: success 126: command cannot be executed 127: command not found I suppose that creating 126 and 127 makes no sense with a built-in.

[ast-users] cd -@ (XATTR) broken in latest ast-ksh alpha?

Is it a know problem that cd -@ (cwd into NFSv4/cifs extended attribute directories) is no longer working in the latest ast-ksh alpha? This happens with ast-ksh.20130524 on Solaris 11.1. Ced -- Cedric Blancher Institute Pasteur ___ ast-users mailing li

[ast-users] VMALLOC_OPTIONS='abort' no longer calling abort() on heap corruption?

A colleague is asking: Is VMALLOC_OPTIONS='abort' no longer calling abort() on heap corruption when libast::free() is passed a pointer which does not originate from libast::malloc()/calloc()? libast version is ast-ksh.2013-05-24 Lionel ___ ast-users mai

[ast-users] Thank you for the grep builtin!

I'd like say "Thank you" for adding the grep builtin to ksh93. Today we figured out that this gave a major performance boost and helped a lot working around shoddy or broken grep implementations. Thank you! Lionel ___ ast-users mailing list ast-users@li

Re: [ast-users] set -u updates in POSIX.1-2008 TC1

On 5 June 2013 19:46, Nathan Weeks wrote: > POSIX.1-2008 TC1 changed the behavior of "set -u" to apply to all parameters > (other than "@" and "*") instead of just variables. > > POSIX.1-2008: > > -u > The shell shall write a message to standard error when it tries to > expand