From 91ae6ad199035b1cfa2589592cbca1570b4c1c4f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: tg <tg@mirbsd.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 22:04:54 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] update

---
 mksh.1 | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mksh.1 b/mksh.1
index 4e056e4..923c721 100644
--- a/mksh.1
+++ b/mksh.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $MirOS: src/bin/mksh/mksh.1,v 1.387 2016/01/14 23:18:09 tg Exp $
+.\" $MirOS: src/bin/mksh/mksh.1,v 1.388 2016/01/20 22:04:54 tg Exp $
 .\" $OpenBSD: ksh.1,v 1.160 2015/07/04 13:27:04 feinerer Exp $
 .\"-
 .\" Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009,
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
 .\" with -mandoc, it might implement .Mx itself, but we want to
 .\" use our own definition. And .Dd must come *first*, always.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: January 14 2016 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: January 20 2016 $
 .\"
 .\" Check which macro package we use, and do other -mdoc setup.
 .\"
@@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ Whitespace and meta-characters can be quoted individually using a backslash
 or in groups using double
 .Pq Sq \&"
 or single
-.Pq Sq \*(aq
+.Pq Dq \*(aq
 quotes.
 Note that the following characters are also treated specially by the
 shell and must be quoted if they are to represent themselves:
@@ -993,7 +993,7 @@ case both the
 .Ql \e
 and the newline are stripped.
 Second, a single quote
-.Pq Sq \*(aq
+.Pq Dq \*(aq
 quotes everything up to the next single quote (this may span lines).
 Third, a double quote
 .Pq Sq \&"
@@ -1006,8 +1006,8 @@ up to the next unquoted double quote.
 .Ql $
 and
 .Ql \`
-inside double quotes have their usual meaning (i.e. parameter, command, or
-arithmetic substitution) except no field splitting is carried out on the
+inside double quotes have their usual meaning (i.e. parameter, arithmetic,
+or command substitution) except no field splitting is carried out on the
 results of double-quoted substitutions.
 If a
 .Ql \e
@@ -1031,7 +1031,9 @@ characters inside can be escaped and do not terminate the string then);
 the expanded result is treated as any other single-quoted string.
 If a double-quoted string is preceded by an unquoted
 .Ql $ ,
-the latter is ignored.
+the
+.Ql $
+is simply ignored.
 .Ss Backslash expansion
 In places where backslashes are expanded, certain C and
 .At
@@ -1291,6 +1293,8 @@ command which is run in a subshell.
 For
 .Pf $( Ns Ar command Ns \&)
 and
+.Pf ${\*(Ba\& Ns Ar command Ns \&;}
+and
 .Pf ${\ \& Ar command Ns \&;}
 substitutions, normal quoting rules are used when
 .Ar command
@@ -1301,6 +1305,8 @@ form, a
 followed by any of
 .Ql $ ,
 .Ql \` ,
+.Ql \&"
+.Pq currently, and violating Tn POSIX ,
 or
 .Ql \e
 is stripped (a
@@ -6588,8 +6594,20 @@ when multiple shells are accessing the file; the rollover process
 for the in-memory portion of the history is slow, should use
 .Xr memmove 3 .
 .Pp
+Handling of backslash plus double-quote inside the (deprecated)
+.Pf \` Ns Ar command Ns \`
+form of command substitution when the substitution itself is
+also inside double quotes currently deliberately violates
+.Tn POSIX
+even in
+.Fl o Ic posix
+mode until Austin group bug 1015 has been resolved either way,
+as the current wording of the standard prohibits the current
+and historic practice of several shells which several scripts
+(admittedly wrongly) depend on.
+.Pp
 This document attempts to describe
-.Nm mksh\ R52
+.Nm mksh\ R52b
 and up,
 .\" with vendor patches from insert-your-name-here,
 compiled without any options impacting functionality, such as