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This file details the changes between the previous release of CWRU bash
(3/10/93) and this release.
1. Bugs Fixed
New version of endian.c that handles 64-bit machines better
added code to make readline reset itself when $TERMINFO changes
fixed memory leaks in:
builtins/exec.def
lib/readline/history.c
lib/readline/readline.c
parse.y
subst.c
variables.c
dispose_cmd.c
mailcheck.c
bashline.c
execute_cmd.c
shell.c
make sure that bash_symbolic_link_hook calls get_working_directory with a
non-empty string argument
check the return value of getdtablesize() for bad values
make the job control tty handlers print error message only if the shell is
currently interactive
process substitution no longer tries to close every file descriptor
fixed up the source to contain more extern function declarations rather than
casting the return values
fixed up handling of embedded quoted strings by the parser so that $ is not
a special character while parsing one
added escape handling to the read builtin so backslashes can escape $IFS
characters
fixed the brace expansion code so that backslash can act as a delimiter and
can escape `"' in a double-quoted string
the `<>' redirection needs to open the file O_RDWR|O_CREAT for Posix.2
compatibility
fixed up the here document reading code so that it will remove backslash-
quoted newlines if the document delimiter is not quoted
fixed up the unwind_protect_var code so that the same strategy is used
for both saving and restoring variables
completion functions may now tell readline not to attempt filename completion
by returning (char **) -1
improved the error message printed by get_working_directory
Compile for solaris if either USGr4 or __svr4__ is defined
bash does not perform a getwd() on startup unless the inherited value of
$PWD is wrong or $PWD was not in the environment
fixed up the trap saving and restoring code so that savetrap=$(trap) works
like Posix.2 says it should
non-interactive shells are now much better about cleaning up dead processes
and jobs on both job control and non job control systems
fixed the code that saves and restores the dollar variables around a `.'
script so that if the script changes the positional parameters, the old
values are not restored
fixed the tokenizer so that it will not return ASSIGNMENT_WORD while
parsing a case statement pattern list
redid the implementation of cprintf for systems without varargs
fixed up the variable expansion code so that illegal variable names in ${ }
expansion now generate errors rather than produce incorrect results
fixed up some problems with default_buffered_input and the implicit redirection
of fd 0 to /dev/null for asynchronous commands without job control
new function internal_error for shell internal error messages
changed the sigint signal handler in nojobs.c to do nothing when it's called,
not even run a signal handler
made the command substitution code more careful about file descriptors when
errors occur
2. New Features
SIGWINCH causes bash to reset the values of $LINES and $COLUMNS for both
readline and non-readline systems
changed the code in readline that handled conditional parsing of `$if term='
to test the terminal name given to $if against both the `long' and `short'
(portion up to the first `-') forms of the terminal name
the completion code now single-quotes a match that contains a shell word
break character
the readline code does not define USE_XON_XOFF. This causes output to be
swallowed when using bash over a relatively slow line (like a modem line).
there is now a bindable readline function to do only history expansion;
bound to M-^ (M-! was already taken)
ulimit now has a -u option to set and get the limit for the maximum number
of user processes
config.h.mini is a `minimal' configuration file that compiles out just about
everything