$MirBSD: src/bin/ksh/CONTRIBUTORS,v 2.2 2004/12/13 18:53:25 tg Exp $ $OpenBSD: CONTRIBUTORS,v 1.9 1999/07/14 13:37:23 millert Exp $ This is a partial history of this shell gleened from old change logs and readmes and source code. Hopefully it is correct and no contributors have been left out (file a bug report if you spot a problem :-)). Release history: * Eric Gisin (egisin@math.uwaterloo.ca), created pdksh, using Charles Forsyth's public domain V7 shell as a base; also used parts of the BRL shell (written by Doug A Gwyn, Doug Kingston, Ron Natalie, Arnold Robbins, Lou Salkind, and others?, circa '87; the parts used in pdksh included getopts, test builtin, ulimit, tty setting/getting, emacs editing, and job control; the test builtin was based on code by Erik Baalbergen). '87..'89 ? Released versions: .. 3.2 * John R MacMillan (@yonge.csri.toronto.edu:chance!john@sq.sq.com) takes over as maintainer dates? Released versions: 3.3 (?) * Simon J. Gerraty (sjg@zen.void.oz.au) takes over as maintainer Nov '91..July '94 ? Released versions: 4.0 .. 4.9 * Michael Rendell (michael@cs.mun.ca) takes over as maintainer July, 1994 Released versions: 5.0 .. 5.2 * Thorsten Glaser (tg@66h.42h.de) releases mksh and is the guy to blame for all mirbsdksh-specific or MirOS-specific bugs. Released versions: 5.2.14 MirOS 1.1-1.x Major contributions: * John R MacMillan (@yonge.csri.toronto.edu:chance!john@sq.sq.com), ?: cleaned up configuration, many bug fixes (see misc/Changes.jrm). * Simon Gerraty, (sjg@zen.void.oz.au), Nov '91..?: much improved emacs mode ala at&t ksh, 386bsd port, sigaction routines for non-POSIX systems (see misc/ChangeLog.sjg and misc/ReadME.sjg). * Peter Collinson (pc@hillside.co.uk), July '92: added select, at&t ksh style history file, original csh-style {} globbing, BSD/386 port, misc bug fixes. * Larry Bouzane (larry@compusult.nf.ca), Mar '89..'93: re-wrote job control, added async job notification, added CDPATH and other cd fixes, misc bug fixes. * John Rochester (jr@cs.mun.ca), '87: wrote vi command line editor; various bug fixes/enhancements. * Jeff Sparkes (jsparkes@bnr.ca), Mar '89..Mar '90: added arrays, merged John Rochester's vi code into pdksh, misc bug fixes. * Michael Haardt (u31b3hs@POOL.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE), Sept '94: organized man page, filled in many of its copious blank spots; added KSH ifdefs. * Dale DePriest (daled@cadence.com): ported to OS/2 (initially based on port of pdksh4.9 to OS/2 by Kai Rommel (rommel@ars.muc.de)); maintains OS/2 port; misc bug fixes. Other contributors: * Piercarlo Grandi (pcg@aber.ac.uk), Dec '93: fixes for linux port * Neil Smithline (Neil.Smithline@eng.sun.com), Aug '92: emacs-style filename completion. * Mike Jetzer [mlj] (jetzer@studsys.mscs.mu.edu), ?;Nov '94: fixes for vi mode (see misc/Changes.mlj), added v to vi, fixes for history; fixed command redoing in vi; fixes to vi globbing. * Robert J Gibson: mailbox checking code that was adapted for pdksh by John R. MacMillan. * ? (guy@demon.co.uk), ?: promptlen() function. * J.T. Conklin (jtc@cygnus.com): POSIXized test builtin; miscellaneous fixes/enhancements. * Sean Hogan (sean@neweast.ca): fixes for ICS 3.0 Unix, found and helped fix numerous problems. * Gordan Larson (hoh@approve.se): fix to compile sans VI, ksh.1 typo. * Thomas Gellekum (thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de): fixes for Makefile typos, fixed CLK_TCK for FreeBSD, man page fixes. * Ed Ferguson (Ed.Ferguson@dseg.ti.com): fix to compile sans VI. * Brian Campbell (brianc@qnx.com): fixes to compile under QNX and to compile with dmake. * (guy@netapp.com), Oct '94: patch to use gmacs flag. * Andrew Moore (alm@netcom.com): reported many bugs, fixes. * William Bader (wbader@CSEE.Lehigh.Edu): fix to compile on SCO Unix (strut winsize). * Mike Long (mike.long@analog.com): makefile fix - use $manext, not 1. * Art Mills (aem@hpbs9162.bio.hp.com): bug fix for vi file completion in command mode. * Tory Bollinger (tboll@authstin.ibm.com): allow ~ in vi mode to take a count. * Frank Edwards (): added macros to vi (@char). * Fritz Heinrichmeyer (): fixes to allow compile under Linux 1.4.3. * Gabor Zahemszky (): SVR3_PGRP vs SYSV_PGRP, many bug reports and man page fixes. * Dave Kinchlea (): DEFAULT_ENV patches. * Paul Borman (): j_exit: send HUP, then CONT; HUP fg process. * DaviD W. Sanderson (): patches to allow { .. } instead of in .. esac in case statements. * ? (): partial patches to handle SIGWINCH for command line editing. * Jason Tyler (): fixes for bugs in fc. * Stefan Dalibor (): fix for COLUMNS never being set in x_init(). * Arnon Kanfi (): fix for prompt. * Marc Olzheim (): patches to ifdef KSH the mail check code and aliases; enum patches for old K&R compilers; handle missing dup2. * Lars Hecking (): fixes so shell compiles as sh again. * Bill Kish (): added prompt delimiter hack for hidden characters (eg, escape codes). * Andrew S. Townley (): fixes for NeXT machines: get a controlling if one needed, use correct profile. * Eric J. Chet (): fix for core dump in . (quitenv() called too soon). * Greg A. Woods : fix to make ^[_ in emacs work as in at&t ksh. * George Robbins : fix for sh mode to keep exec'd file descriptors open. * George White : fix here-doc problem under OS/2 (memory allocated incorrectly). * David E. Wexelblat : fix to avoid memory overrun in aresize(); fix to not print un-named options. * Clifford Wolf (): fix memory overrun in aresize(); fixed sys_siglist[] problem. * Theo de Raadt (): allow ". /dev/null". * Eric Youngdale (): flag field incorrectly changed in exec.c(flushcom). * Todd. C Miller (Todd C. Miller ): fix for coredump in jobs. * Kevin Schoedel : fix for word location in file completion. * Martin Lucina : fix for argument parsing in exit command, fix for KSH_CHECK_H_TYPE. * Mark Funkenhauser : added $LINENO support. * Corinna Vinschen and Steven Hein : port to cyngin environment on win95/winnt. * Martin Dalecki : changes for 8 bit emacs mode. * Dave Hillman : patch for bug in test -nt.