• tty_fd is now never closed
• new tty_hasstate tracks tty_state (cf. thread around
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.miros.mksh/79 and PLD bug)
• as users requested, importing COLUMNS or LINES from the environment
now removes its special-ness as does unsetting it
• otherwise, setting COLUMNS or LINES is honoured until the next SIGWINCH
arrives or change_winsz is otherwise run (e.g. before displaying the
prompt in the interactive command line editing modes)
• SIGWINCH is now honoured before each reading of $COLUMNS and $LINES too
• change the Uhr to match – it no longer calls stty(1) ☺
• all writers of exstat ensure the value is in [0; 0xFF]
• all readers of exstat AND it with 0xFF (not strictly needed thus)
• trap_exstat is “safe”, i.e. always either -1 or [0; 0xFF]
This was actually more evil:
• use a recursive function to display blocks in reverse order,
so that local variable values overwrite global ones
• add array support to typeset -p (from typeset -p -)
• display 'set -A varname' line before setting values, for -p
• if -p got arguments, only display those (from the innermost scope)
Also, the usual amount of code cleanup…
to get rid of the bias introduced by making the hash never zero
… he also pointed out a memory (heap) usage optimisation… which
may impact code size a bit though as I’d need to pass an additional
argument on hashtable function calls… or, forgo the benefit of not
having to pointer-align the key in the structure, which can be as
much as 3/7 octets per item, heap storage… OTOH the saved space is
4/8 octets per not-allocated item, possibly some code (use of an
multiply-add opcode), but the function call overhead/cost would
possibly be quite a bit… I guess I’ll have to measure…
XXX in the future, the entire scheme must be rethinked when we need more
XXX entropy for the hash tables; possibly a cheap add using NZAT and re-
XXX initialise the LCG only on access and when added (so keep NZAT state
XXX separate from LCG state); also, then we will need a more elaborate
XXX scheme, such as adding from environment, editor keypresses and timing
if we find any, but not later; do not check on every read
⇒ allows changing COLUMNS and LINES (independent of each other, or both)
for script shells by passing them in an environment setting, even if
we get a tty; interactive shells still check before each line is read…
reported by the PLD guys, thanks
handle any more, octal 010 style constants, as promised
• overhaul the manpage re. arithmetic expressions, make the guarantees
mksh code has explicitly, precisely, clear
• to reduce burden of the compiler, getint() now operates on mksh_uari_t
internally; it already applied the sign after operation, anyway (C99
guarantees wraparound on unsigned types, but for signed types we need
specific compiler support; apparently, this comes from hardware limits)
• use const and shuffle order of locals around while here
• while here, reformat 'struct tbl' comment-wise and placement-wise
and drop the Tflag typedef
• while here, write regression test for the "global" built-in, which
does what typeset is supposed to do except that it doubles as "local"
Testsuite:
• add new need-pass: {yes|no} attribute, default yes
• exit with 1 if a need-pass test failed unexpectedly
idea by Kacper Kornet <draenog@pld-linux.org>
• mark utf8bom-2 as need-pass: no
Infrstructure:
• add housekeeping function for making a tty raw
• switch functions with unused results to void
• struct op: u.charflag contains last char of ;; in TPAT
• var.c:arraysearch is now a global function
Language:
• add ;& (fall through) and ;| (examine next) delimiters
in addition to ;; (end case) as zsh extensions, because
POSIX standardised on ;& already
• add -A (read into array), -N (read exactly n bytes),
-n (read up to n bytes), -t (timeout) flags for read
from ksh93
• allow read -N -1 or -n -1 to slurp the entire input
• add -a (read into array the input characters) extension
specific to mksh to read, idea by David Korn
• add -e (exit with error if PWD was not set correctly
after a physical cd) to cd builtin, mandated by next
POSIX, and change error codes accordingly
Rewrites:
• full rewrite of read builtin and its manpage section
• add regression tetss for most of the new functionality
• duplicate hexdump demo tests for use of read -a
• use read -raN-1 in dot.mkshrc to get NUL safe base64,
DJB cdb hash and Jenkins one-at-a-time hash functions
a bit more with POSIX and the other shells
I considered http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=253 but the use
of bi_errorf() is interesting, especially as it’s often enough a
noreturn function, and funnily enough, 'cd -P /foo' returns 0 while
'chdir -P /foo' fails (so idk where to put -e)…
① currently: ((cond) ? true : false) but (!!(cond)) and casting to bool,
the latter only if stdbool.h, would also work – which performs best on
(and across) all supported systems?
