1 This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.05-release,
2 and the previous version, bash-2.05-beta2.
6 a. Make sure we note that the first line of a multi-line command was not
7 saved in the history if the tests for HISTCONTROL succeed, but the
8 HISTIGNORE check fails.
10 b. Fixed a bug in the pattern matching code that caused `[' to be treated
11 as a special character inside a `[...]' bracket expression.
13 c. Fixed a bug in the pattern matching code that caused `]' to terminate
14 a bracket expression even if it was the first character after the `['
15 (or a leading `!' or `^').
17 d. Made a small change to report a more user-friendly error message if
18 execve(2) fails because of an error with the interpreter in a script
19 with a leading `#! interpreter'.
21 e. If the OS does not support an exec(2) magic number of `#!', make sure we
22 have a non-null interpreter name before attempting to execute it.
24 f. Fixed a bug that caused the shell process to end up in a different
25 process group than the controlling terminal if a job-control shell was
26 run with `exec' in the startup files.
28 g. When started in POSIX mode, either by `bash --posix', `bash -o posix', or
29 `sh', $SHELLOPTS includes `posix' and POSIXLY_CORRECT is set.
31 h. Fixed a problem that caused the `\W' prompt string escape sequence to
32 expand to nothing when $PWD was `//'.
34 i. The `bashbug' shell script no longer uses $(...) command substitution.
36 j. When `set' is invoked without options in POSIX mode, it no longer prints
37 the names and definitions of shell functions.
39 2. Changes to Readline
41 a. rl_set_paren_blink_timeout() is now documented.
43 b. Corrected history.3 man page: `$' is not in the default value of
44 history_word_delimiters.
46 c. If a hook function assigned to rl_event_hook sets rl_done to a non-zero
47 value, rl_read_key() now immediately returns '\n' (which is assumed to
48 be bound to accept-line).
50 3. New Features in Bash
52 a. The `>&word' redirection now works in POSIX mode as it does by default,
53 since POSIX.2 leaves it unspecified.
55 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
56 This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.05-beta2,
57 and the previous version, bash-2.05-beta1.
61 a. Fixed a bug in the arithmetic evaluation code so that a^=b is supported.
63 b. Fixed startup so posixly_correct is retained across subshells begun to
64 execute scripts without a leading `#!'.
66 c. Fixed a bug that caused $(< file) to not work in a (...) subshell.
68 d. Added config support for Linux running on the IBM S390.
70 e. Fixed a bug that caused bash to get its input pointer out of sync when
71 reading commands through a pipe and running a command with standard
72 input redirected from a file.
74 f. Made a change so that command completion now makes about half as many
75 stat(2) calls when searching the $PATH.
77 g. Fixed a bug that caused variable assignments preceding `return' to not
78 be propagated to the shell environment in POSIX mode.
80 h. Fixed a bug with ${parameter[:]?word} -- tilde expansion was not performed
83 i. In POSIX mode, `break' and `continue' do not complain and return success
84 if called when the shell is not executing a loop.
86 j. Fixed `bash -o posix' to work the same as `bash --posix'.
88 k. Fixed a bug where variable assignments preceding `eval' or `source/.'
89 would not show up in the environment exported to subshells run by the
92 l. In POSIX mode, shells started to execute command substitutions inherit
93 the value of the `-e' option from their parent shell.
95 m. In POSIX mode, aliases are expanded even in non-interactive shells.
97 n. Changed some of the job control messages to display the text required by
98 POSIX.2 when the shell is in POSIX mode.
100 o. Fixed a bug in `test' that caused it to occasionally return incorrect
101 results when non-numeric arguments were supplied to `-t'.
103 2. Changes to Readline
105 a. Some changes were made to avoid gcc warnings with -Wall.
107 b. rl_get_keymap_by_name now finds keymaps case-insensitively, so
108 `set keymap EMACS' works.
110 c. The history file writing and truncation functions now return a useful
113 d. Fixed a bug that could cause applications to dereference a NULL pointer
114 if a NULL second argument was passed to history_expand().
116 3. New Features in Bash
118 a. doc/readline.3 has been moved to the readline distribution.
120 4. New Features in Readline
122 a. New function, rl_get_screen_size (int *rows, int *columns), returns
123 readline's idea of the screen dimensions.
125 b. The timeout in rl_gather_tyi (readline keyboard input polling function)
126 is now settable via a function (rl_set_keyboard_input_timeout()).
128 c. Renamed the max_input_history variable to history_max_entries; the old
129 variable is maintained for backwards compatibility.
131 d. The list of characters that separate words for the history tokenizer is
132 now settable with a variable: history_word_delimiters. The default
135 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
136 This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.05-beta1,
137 and the previous version, bash-2.05-alpha1.
141 a. Changes to allow shared library and object building on the GNU Hurd.
143 b. Fixes to the way exported functions are placed into the environment and
146 c. The globbing library once again respects locales when processing ranges
147 in bracket expressions while doing pattern matching.
149 d. System-specific configuration changes for: Tru 64, Interix
151 e. Bashbug now uses /usr/bin/editor as one of the editing alternatives, and
152 will use mktemp(1) or tempfile(1), if present, for temporary file creation.
154 f. Bash no longer performs a binary file check on a script argument that's
155 really a tty (like /dev/fd/0 or /dev/stdin).
157 g. Fixed a bug in the execution of shell scripts that caused the effects of
158 $BASH_ENV to be undone in some cases.
160 h. Fixed several bugs that made `bash [-i] /dev/stdin' not work correctly.
162 i. Several changes to the job control code to avoid some signal state
165 j. The Bash malloc no longer blocks signals as often, which should make it
168 k. Fixed a parsing bug that did not allow backslash to escape a single quote
169 inside a $'...' construct.
171 l. Fixed a bug that caused things like ${var:=$'value'} to be parsed
172 incorrectly. This showed up in newer versions of autoconf.
174 m. Fixed a bug in the bash-specific readline initialization that caused
175 key bindings to bash-specific function names appearing in .inputrc to
178 n. Bash now sets the file descriptor it uses to save the file descriptor
179 opened on a shell script to close on exec.
181 o. Fixed a bug in the prompt string decoding that caused it to misbehave
182 when presented an octal sequence of fewer than three characters.
184 p. Fixed the `test' builtin to return an error if `[' is supplied a single
185 argument that is not `]'.
187 q. Fixed a bug that caused subshells started to run executable shell scripts
188 without a leading `#!' to incorrectly inherit an argument list preceding
189 a shell builtin (like such a script called from a script sourced with `.',
190 where there were variable assignments preceding the `.' command)
192 r. Fixed a bug that caused changes to variables supplied in an assignment
193 statement preceding a shell builtin to not be honored (like a script
196 s. HOSTTYPE, OSTYPE, and MACHTYPE are set only if they do not have values
197 when the shell is started.
199 t. Fixed a bug that caused SIGINT to kill shell scripts after the script
202 u. The `fc' builtin now tries to create its temporary files in the directory
205 v. Bash no longer calls any Readline functions or uses any Readline variables
206 not declared in readline.h.
208 w. Fixed a bug that caused some substitutions involving $@ to not be split
209 correctly, especially expansions of the form ${paramterOPword}.
211 x. SSH2_CLIENT is now treated like SSH_CLIENT and not auto-exported if it
212 appears in the initial environment.
214 y. Fixed a couple of problems with shell scripts without a leading `#!'
215 being executed out of shell functions that could cause core dumps if
216 such a script attempted to execute `return'.
218 z. Fixed a problem with the `-nt' and `-ot' binary operators for the
219 `test/[' builtin and the `[[' conditional command that caused wrong
220 return values if one of the file arguments did not exist.
222 aa. Fixed a bug that caused non-interactive shells which had previously
223 executed `shopt -s expand_aliases' to fail to expand aliases in a
224 command like `(command) &'.
226 2. Changes to Readline
228 a. Changes to make most (but not yet all -- there is still crlf()) of the
229 exported readline functions declared in readline.h have an rl_ prefix.
231 b. More `const' changes in function arguments, mostly for completion
234 c. Fixed a bug in rl_forward that could cause the point to be set to before
235 the beginning of the line in vi mode.
237 d. Fixed a bug in the callback read-char interface to make it work when a
238 readline function pushes some input onto the input stream with
239 rl_execute_next (like the incremental search functions).
241 e. Fixed a file descriptor leak in the history file manipulation code that
242 was tripped when attempting to truncate a non-regular file (like
245 f. Some existing variables are now documented and part of the public
246 interface (declared in readline.h): rl_explict_arg, rl_numeric_arg,
247 rl_editing_mode, rl_last_func.
249 g. Renamed rltty_set_default_bindings to rl_tty_set_default_bindings and
250 crlf to rl_crlf, so there are no public functions declared in readline.h
251 without an `rl_' prefix. The old functions still exist for backwards
254 3. New Features in Bash
256 a. A new loadable builtin, realpath, which canonicalizes and expands symlinks
257 in pathname arguments.
259 b. When `set' is called without options, it prints function defintions in a
260 way that allows them to be reused as input. This affects `declare' and
261 `declare -p' as well.
263 4. New Features in Readline
265 a. New application-callable function rl_set_prompt(const char *prompt):
266 expands its prompt string argument and sets rl_prompt to the result.
268 b. New application-callable function rl_set_screen_size(int rows, int cols):
269 public method for applications to set readline's idea of the screen
272 c. The history example program (examples/histexamp.c) is now built as one
275 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
276 This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.05-alpha1,
277 and the previous version, bash-2.04-release.
281 a. A fix was made to allow newlines in compond array assignments.
283 b. configure now checks for real-time signals with unusable values.
285 c. Interactive shells no longer exit if a substitution fails because of an
286 unset variable within a sourced file.
288 d. Fixed a problem with incorrect matching of extended glob patterns when
289 doing pattern substitution.
291 e. `{' is now quoted by the completion code when it appears in a filename.
293 f. Fixed an error in pattern matching that caused the matcher to not
294 correctly skip the rest of a bracket expression after a character
297 g. Fixed a bug in the IFS word splitting code to make a non-whitespace IFS
298 character preceded by IFS whitespace part of the current delimiter rather
299 than generating a separate field.
301 h. The {!prefix@} expansion now generates separate words, analogous to $@,
304 i. Command substitution now ignores NUL bytes in the command output, and the
305 parser ignores them on input.
307 j. A fix was made to the job control code to prevent hanging processes when
308 the shell thinks background processes are running but the kernel returns
309 -1/ECHILD from waitpid().
311 k. `pwd' now prints an error message if the write fails when displaying the
314 l. When in POSIX mode, the shell prints trap dispostions without a leading
315 `SIG' in the signal specification.
317 m. Fixed a parser bug that caused the current command's line count to be
318 messed up by a compound array assignment.
320 n. Fixed a bug in the unwind-protect code that caused bad behavior on machines
321 where ints and pointers are not the same size.
323 o. System-specific configure changes for: MacOS X.
325 p. Changes for Cygwin to translate \r\n and \r to \n and to set file
326 descriptors used for reading input to text mode in various places.
328 q. Fixed a bug that caused `!' to occasionally not be honored when in
331 r. Bash no longer assumes that getcwd() will return any useful error message
332 in the buffer passed as an argument if the call fails.
334 s. The `source', `.', and `fc' builtins no longer check whether a file is
335 binary before reading commands from it.
337 t. Subshells no longer turn off job control when they exit, since that
338 sometimes resulted in the terminal being reset to the wrong process
341 u. The history code no longer tries to save the second and subsequent lines
342 of a multi-line command if the first line was not saved.
344 v. The history saving code now does a better job of saving blank lines in a
347 w. Removed a `feature' that made `ulimit' silently translate `unlimited' to
348 the current hard limit, which obscured some kernel error returns.
350 x. Fixed the grammar so that `}' is recognized as a reserved word after
351 another reserved word, rather than requiring a `;' or newline. This
352 means that constructs like
358 y. Conditional commands ([[...]]) now perform tilde expansion on their
361 z. Noted in the documentation that `set -a' will cause functions to be
362 exported if they are defined after `set -a' is executed.
364 aa. When an interactive login shell starts, if $PWD and $HOME refer to the
365 same directory but are not the same string, $PWD is set to $HOME.
367 bb. Fixed `printf' to handle invalid floating point numbers better.
369 cc. Temporary files are now created with random filenames, to improve security.
371 dd. The readline initialization code now binds the custom bash functions and
372 key bindings after the readline defaults are set up.
374 ee. Fixed the `source' builtin to no longer overwrite a shell function's
375 argument list, even if the sourced file changes the positional parameters.
377 ff. A bug fix was made in the expansion of `$*' in contexts where it should
378 not be split, like assignment statements.
380 gg. Fixed a bug in the parameter substring expansion to handle conditional
381 arithmetic expressions ( exp ? val1 : val2 ) without cutting the expression
382 off at the wrong `:'.
384 hh. The `<>' redirection is no longer subject to the current setting of
385 `noclobber', as POSIX.2 specifies.
387 ii. Fixed a bug in the conditional command parsing code that caused expressions
388 in parentheses to occasionally be parsed incorrectly.
390 jj. Fixed a bug in the ((...)) arithmetic command to allow do...done or
391 {...} to follow the )) without an intervening list terminator.
393 kk. `printf' now treats `\E' the same as `\e' when performing backslash escape
394 expansion for the `%b' format specifier.
396 ll. When in POSIX mode, the shell no longer searches the current directory for
397 a file to be sourced with `.' or `source' if `.' is not in $PATH.
399 mm. Interactive comments are no longer turned off when POSIX mode is disabled.
401 nn. The UID, EUID, HOSTNAME variables are not set if they are in the shell's
402 environment when it starts up.
404 oo. Fixed a bug in the `command' builtin so the effect of a command like
405 `command exec 4<file' is as if the `command' had been omitted.
407 pp. ${foo[@]} and ${foo[*]} now work as in ksh93 if `foo' is not an array
410 qq. ${#foo[X]}, where X is 0, @, or *, now work as in ksh93 if `foo' is not
413 rr. The shell's idea of an absolute pathname now takes into account a
414 possible drive specification on Cygwin and other Windows systems.
416 ss. Fixed a bug which caused incorrect parsing of some multi-character
417 constructs if they were split across input lines with backslash-newline
420 tt. Fixed a bug that caused restricted shell mode to be set inappropriately
421 when trying to execute a shell script without a leading `#!'.
423 uu. Shell function definitions no longer require that the body be a group
424 command ( {...} ), as POSIX.2 requires.
426 vv. The `cd' and `pwd' builtins now process symlinks in pathnames internally
427 and should require many fewer calls to getcwd().
429 ww. Fixed a bug that caused a pipeline's process group to be set incorrectly
430 if one of the pipeline elements contained a command substitution.
432 xx. Fixed a bug that caused core dumps when expanding the value of HISTIGNORE.
434 yy. The output of `set' is now quoted using $'...' so invisible characters are
435 displayed as escape sequences.
437 zz. Fixed the help text for `unset', since PATH and IFS may both be unset.
439 aaa. The shell no longer puts directory names into the command hash table.
441 bbb. Fixed a bug in `read' that caused it to occasionally free memory twice if
442 it was interrupted after reading a large amount of data.
444 ccc. Assignment statements that attempt to assign values to readonly variables
445 now cause the command to return an error status.
447 ddd. Fixed a bug that could cause incorrect output if a $(<file) construct was
450 eee. GROUPS and FUNCNAME now return an error status when assignment is
451 attempted, but may be unset (in which case they lose their special
452 properties). In all respects except unsetting, they are readonly.
454 fff. The string-to-integer conversion code now ignores trailing whitespace in
455 the string, even if strtol(3) does not.
457 ggg. The tcsh magic-space function now does a better job of inserting the
458 space close to where the point was before the history expansion, rather
459 than just appending it.
461 hhh. Fixed a bug which caused a file sourced from an interactive shell to
462 fill up the jobs table if it ran lots of jobs.
464 iii. Fixed a bug in the parameter pattern substitution code to avoid infinite
465 recursion on zero-length matches.
467 2. Changes to Readline
469 a. When setting the terminal attributes on systems using `struct termio',
470 readline waits for output to drain before changing the attributes.
472 b. A fix was made to the history word tokenization code to avoid attempts to
473 dereference a null pointer.
475 c. Readline now defaults rl_terminal_name to $TERM if the calling application
476 has left it unset, and tries to initialize with the resultant value.
478 d. Instead of calling (*rl_getc_function)() directly to get input in certain
479 places, readline now calls rl_read_key() consistently.
481 e. Fixed a bug in the completion code that allowed a backslash to quote a
482 single quote inside a single-quoted string.
484 f. rl_prompt is no longer assigned directly from the argument to readline(),
485 but uses memory allocated by readline. This allows constant strings to
486 be passed to readline without problems arising when the prompt processing
487 code wants to modify the string.
489 g. Fixed a bug that caused non-interactive history searches to return the
490 wrong line when performing multiple searches backward for the same string.
492 h. Many variables, function arguments, and function return values are now
493 declared `const' where appropriate, to improve behavior when linking with
496 i. The control character detection code now works better on systems where
497 `char' is unsigned by default.
499 j. The vi-mode numeric argument is now capped at 999999, just like emacs mode.
501 k. The Function, CPFunction, CPPFunction, and VFunction typedefs have been
502 replaced with a set of specific prototyped typedefs, though they are
503 still in the readline header files for backwards compatibility.
505 m. Nearly all of the (undocumented) internal global variables in the library
506 now have an _rl_ prefix -- there were a number that did not, like
507 screenheight, screenwidth, alphabetic, etc.
509 n. The ding() convenience function has been renamed to rl_ding(), though the
510 old function is still defined for backwards compatibility.
512 o. The completion convenience functions filename_completion_function,
513 username_completion_function, and completion_matches now have an rl_
514 prefix, though the old names are still defined for backwards compatibility.
516 p. The functions shared by readline and bash (linkage is satisfied from bash
517 when compiling with bash, and internally otherwise) now have an sh_ prefix.
519 q. Changed the shared library creation procedure on Linux and BSD/OS 4.x so
520 that the `soname' contains only the major version number rather than the
521 major and minor numbers.
523 r. Fixed a redisplay bug that occurred when the prompt spanned more than one
524 physical line and contained invisible characters.
526 3. New Features in Bash
528 a. Added a new `--init-file' invocation argument as a synonym for `--rcfile',
529 per the new GNU coding standards.
531 b. The /dev/tcp and /dev/udp redirections now accept service names as well as
534 c. `complete' and `compgen' now take a `-o value' option, which controls some
535 of the aspects of that compspec. Valid values are:
537 default - perform bash default completion if programmable
538 completion produces no matches
539 dirnames - perform directory name completion if programmable
540 completion produces no matches
541 filenames - tell readline that the compspec produces filenames,
542 so it can do things like append slashes to
543 directory names and suppress trailing spaces
545 4. New Features in Readline
547 a. The blink timeout for paren matching is now settable by applications.
549 b. _rl_executing_macro has been renamed to rl_executing_macro, which means
550 it's now part of the public interface.
552 c. Readline has a new variable, rl_readline_state, which is a bitmap that
553 encapsulates the current state of the library; intended for use by
554 callbacks and hook functions.
556 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
557 This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.04-release,
558 and the previous version, bash-2.04-beta5.
562 a. Better compile-time and configure-time checks for the necessity of
565 b. A bug was fixed in the expansion of "${@:-}" when there are positional
568 c. A typo was fixed in the output of `complete'.
570 d. The matches generated for a word by the `-W' argument to complete and
571 compgen are now matched against the word being completed, and only
572 matches are returned as the result.
574 e. Some fixes were made for systems which do not restart read(2) when a
575 signal caught by bash is received.
577 f. A bug was fixed which caused the umask to be set to 0 when an invalid
578 symbolic mode mask was parsed.
580 g. Fixed a bug that could cause a core dump if a SIGCHLD was received while
581 performing an assignment statement using command substitution.
583 h. Changed the word splitting function for programmable completion so cases
584 in which the cursor is between words are handled a bit better.
586 2. Changes to Readline
588 a. rl_funmap_names() is now documented.
590 3. New Features in Bash
592 a. The LC_NUMERIC variable is now treated specially, and used to set the
593 LC_NUMERIC locale category for number formatting, e.g., when `printf'
594 displays floating-point numbers.
596 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
597 This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.04-beta5,
598 and the previous version, bash-2.04-beta4.
602 a. A couple of changes were made to the Makefiles for easier building on
605 b. Fixed a bug where the current prompt would be set to $PS2 at startup.
607 c. The shell script that tests an already-installed version was changed to
608 remove the directory it created its test programs in at exit.
610 d. Several changes were made to the code that tokenizes an input line for
611 the programmable completion code. Shell metacharacters will now appear
612 as individual words in the word list passed to the completion functions.
613 Some of the example completion shell functions were changed to understand
614 redirection operators.
616 e. A bug was fixed that, under obscure circumstances, could confuse the
617 parser when a shell function was run by the programmable completion code.
619 f. A bug was fixed in the ulimit builtin for systems not using getrlimit().
621 g. The execution code now propagates the correct exit status back to the rest
622 of the code if the return value of a subshell command was being inverted.
623 Some new test cases for inverting return values with the `!' reserved
624 word have been added.
626 h. Negative exponents in the arithmetic evaluation of v**e now return an
629 i. A bug that caused bash to check the wrong process in a pipeline for
630 abnormal termination (and consequently resetting the terminal attributes)
633 j. Fixed a bug that caused $PS2 to be displayed after PROMPT_COMMAND was
636 2. Changes to Readline
638 1. Fixed a bug in a C preprocessor define that caused the keypad control
639 functions to be compiled out for all platforms except DJGPP.
641 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
642 This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.04-beta4,
643 and the previous version, bash-2.04-beta3.
647 a. A couple of changes were made to the redirection to attempt to avoid
648 race conditions and malicious file replacement.
650 2. A change was made to the string evaluation code (used for command
651 substitution, `eval', and the `.' builtin) to fix an obscure core
652 dump on alpha machines.
654 3. A bug that caused $LINENO to be wrong when executing arithmetic for
657 4. A couple of memory leaks in the programmable completion code were fixed.
659 5. A bug that could cause a core dump by freeing memory twice during a call
660 to `eval' if `set -u' had been enabled and an undefined variable was
661 referenced was fixed.
663 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
664 This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.04-beta3,
665 and the previous version, bash-2.04-beta2.
669 a. Bash should run the appropriate startup files when invoked by ssh2.
671 b. Fixed a bug in the parsing of conditional commands that could cause a
674 c. Fixed a bug in parsing job specifications that occasionally caused
675 core dumps when an out-of-range job was referenced.
677 d. Fixed the `type' and `command' builtins to do better reporting of
678 commands that are not found in $PATH or the hash table.
680 e. Fixed a POSIX.2 compliance problem in the command builtin -- commands
681 are supposed to be reported as full pathnames.
683 f. The `echo' builtin now returns failure if a write error occurs.
685 g. Fixed a bug which caused the locale to not be reset correctly when
688 h. Changed description of `getopts' in man page and reference manual to make
689 it clear that option characters may be characters other than letters.
691 i. If the shell exits while in a function, make sure that any trap on EXIT
692 doesn't think the function is still executing.
694 j. Bashbug now tries harder to find a usable editor if $EDITOR is not set,
695 rather than simply defaulting to `emacs'.
697 k. Changes to the scripts that guess and canonicalize the system type, from
698 the latest `automake' distribution via Debian.
700 l. When using named pipes for process substitution, make sure the file
701 descriptors opened for reading are set to non-blocking mode.
703 m. Fixed a bug that caused termination of pipelines that are killed by a
704 signal to not be reported in some cases.
706 n. When not in literal-history mode, shell comment lines are not added to
709 o. When running in POSIX.2 mode, bash no longer performs word splitting on
710 the expanded value of the word supplied as the filename argument to
711 redirection operators.
713 p. The prompt string decoding code now backslash-quotes only characters that
714 are special within double quotes when expanding the \w and \W escape
717 q. Fixed a bug in the prompt decoding code that could cause a non-interactive
718 shell to seg fault if `\u' was used in PS4 and the shell was in xtrace
721 r. Fixed a bug that caused function definitions to be printed with any
722 redirections that should be attached to the entire function before the
725 s. Changed the tilde expansion code for Cygwin systems to avoid creating
726 pathnames beginning with `//' if $HOME == `/'.
728 t. Fixed a couple of autoconf tests to avoid creating files with fixed names
731 u. The `trap' and `kill' builtins now know the names of the POSIX.1b real-
732 time signals on systems which support them.
734 2. Changes to Readline
736 a. Fixed a problem with the single-quote quoting function that could cause
739 b. Fixed a bug that caused incorrect `stat characters' to be printed if
740 the files being completed were in the root directory and visible-stats
743 3. New Features in Bash
745 a. There is a new `rbash.1' manual page, from the Debian release.
747 b. The `--enable-usg-echo-default' option to `configure' has been renamed to
748 `--enable-xpg-echo-default'. The old option is still there for backwards
751 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
752 This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.04-beta2,
753 and the previous version, bash-2.04-beta1.
757 a. Fixed a bug that could cause pipes to be closed inappropriately in
760 b. Fixed a bug that caused creation of the exported environment to clobber
761 the current command string if there were any exported shell functions.
763 c. Some changes were made to reduce bash's memory usage.
765 d. Fixed a problem with programmable completion and filenames to be
766 completed containing quote characters.
768 e. Changed the code the removes named pipes created for the <(...) and >(...)
769 expansions to defer removal until after any current shell function has
772 f. Fixed a bug in `select' which caused it to not handle the `continue'
775 g. Autoconf tests added for cygwin32 and mingw32.
777 2. New Features in Bash
779 a. The `--with-bash-malloc' configure option replaces `--with-gnu-malloc'
780 (which is still there for backwards compatibility).
782 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
783 This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.04-beta1,
784 and the previous version, bash-2.04-alpha1.
788 a. Fixed a bug in the programmable completion code that occurred when
789 trying to complete command lines containing a `;' or `@'.
791 b. The file descriptor from which the shell is reading a script is now
792 moved to a file descriptor above the user-addressible range.
794 c. Changes to `printf' so that it can handle integers beginning with 0
795 or 0x as octal and hex, respectively.
797 d. Fixes to the programmable completion code so it handles nonsense like
798 `compgen -C xyz' gracefully.
800 e. The shell no longer modifies the signal handler for SIGPROF, allowing
801 profiling again on certain systems.
803 f. The shell checks for a new window size, if the user has requested it,
804 after a process exits due to a signal.
806 g. Fixed a bug with variables with null values in a program's temporary
807 environment and the bash getenv() replacement.
809 h. `declare' and the other builtins that take variable assignments as
810 arguments now honor `set -a' and mark modified variables for export.
812 i. Some changes were made for --dump-po-strings mode when writing strings
813 with embedded newlines.
815 j. The code that caches export strings from the initial environment now
816 duplicates the string rather than just pointing into the environment.
818 k. The filename completion quoting code now uses single quotes by default
819 if the filename being completed contains newlines, since \<newline>
820 has a special meaning to the parser.
822 l. Bash now uses typedefs bits32_t and u_bits32_t instead of int32_t and
823 u_int32_t, respectively to avoid conflicts on certain Unix versions.
825 m. Configuration changes were made for: Rhapsody, Mac OS, FreeBSD-3.x.
827 n. Fixed a problem with hostname-to-ip-address translation in the
828 /dev/(tcp|udp)/hostname/port redirection code.
830 o. The texinfo manual has been reorganized slightly.
832 p. Filename generation (globbing) range comparisons in bracket expressions
833 no longer use strcoll(3) even if it is available, since it has unwanted
834 effects in certain locales.
836 q. Fixed a cosmetic problem in the source that caused the shell to not
837 compile if DPAREN_ARITHMETIC was not defined but ARITH_FOR_COMMAND was.
839 r. Fixed a bug in the here-document code tripped when the file descriptor
840 opened to the file containing the text of the here document was the
841 same as a redirector specified by the user.
843 s. Fixed a bug where the INVERT_RETURN flag was not being set for `pipeline'
844 in `time ! pipeline'.
846 t. Fixed a bug with the `wait' builtin which manifested itself when an
847 interrupt was received while the shell was waiting for asynchronous
848 processes in a shell script.
850 u. Fixed the DEBUG trap code so that it has the correct value of $?.
852 v. Fixed a bug in the parameter pattern substitution code that could cause
853 the shell to attempt to free unallocated memory if the pattern started
854 with `/' and an expansion error occurs.
856 w. Fixed a bug in the positional parameter substring code that could
857 cause the shell to loop freeing freed memory.
859 x. Fixed a bug in the positional parameter pattern substitution code so
860 that it correctly handles null replacement strings with a pattern
861 string prefixed with `%' or `#'.
863 y. The shell no longer attempts to import functions from the environment if
866 z. Fixed a bug that caused `return' in a command substitution executed in
867 a shell function to return from the function in a subshell and continue
870 aa. `hash -p /pathname/with/slashes name' is no longer allowed when the shell
873 bb. The wait* job control functions now behave better if called when there
874 are no unwaited-for children.
876 cc. Command substitution no longer unconditionally disables job control in
877 the subshell started to run the command.
879 dd. A bug was fixed that occasionally caused traps to mess up the parser
882 ee. `bashbug' now honors user headers in the mail message it sends.
884 ff. A bug was fixed that caused the `:p' history modifier to not print the
885 history expansion if the `histverify' option was set.
887 2. Changes to Readline
889 a. Fixed a bug in the redisplay code for lines with more than 256 line
892 b. A bug was fixed which caused invisible character markers to not be
893 stripped from the prompt string if the terminal was in no-echo mode.
895 c. Readline no longer tries to get the variables it needs for redisplay
896 from the termcap entry if the calling application has specified its
897 own redisplay function. Readline treats the terminal as `dumb' in
900 d. Fixes to the SIGWINCH code so that a multiple-line prompt with escape
901 sequences is redrawn correctly.
903 3. New Features in Bash
905 a. `bashbug' now accepts `--help' and `--version' options.
907 b. There is a new `xpg_echo' option to `shopt' that controls the behavior
908 of echo with respect to backslash-escaped characters at runtime.
910 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
911 This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.04-alpha1,
912 and the previous version, bash-2.04-devel.
916 a. Fixed a bug that could cause core dumps when performing substring
919 b. Shared object configuration changes for: Solaris, OSF/1
921 c. The POSIX_GLOB_LIBRARY code that uses the POSIX.2 globbing facilities
922 for pathname expansion now understands GLOBIGNORE.
924 d. The code that implements `eval' was changed to save the value of the
925 current prompt, so an eval in a shell function called by the programmable
926 completion code will not change the prompt to $PS2.
928 e. Restored the undocumented NON_INTERACTIVE_LOGIN_SHELLS #define to
929 config-top.h. If this is defined, all login shells will read the
930 startup files, not just interactive and non-interactive started with
931 the `--login' option.
933 f. Fixed a bug that caused the expansion code to occasionally dump core if
934 IFS contained characters > 128.
936 g. Fixed a problem with the grammar so that a newline is not required
937 after the `))' in the new-style arithmetic for statement; a semicolon
938 may be used as expected.
940 h. Variable indirection may now reference the shell's special variables.
942 i. The $'...' and $"..." constructs are now added to the history correctly
943 if they contain newlines and command-oriented history is enabled.
945 j. It is now an error to try to assign a value to a function-local copy
946 of a readonly shell variable (declared with the `local' builtin).
948 2. Changes to Readline
950 a. The history file code now uses O_BINARY mode when reading and writing
951 the history file on cygwin32.
953 3. New Features in Bash
955 a. A new programmable completion facility, with two new builtin commands:
956 complete and compgen.
958 b. configure has a new option, `--enable-progcomp', to compile in the
959 programmable completion features (enabled by default).
961 c. `shopt' has a new option, `progcomp', to enable and disable programmable
962 completion at runtime.
964 d. Unsetting HOSTFILE now clears the list of hostnames used for completion.
966 4. New Features in Readline
968 a. A new variable, rl_gnu_readline_p, always 1. The intent is that an
969 application can verify whether or not it is linked with the `real'
970 readline library or some substitute.
972 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
973 This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.04-devel,
974 and the previous version, bash-2.03-release.
978 a. System-specific configuration and source changes for: Interix, Rhapsody
980 b. Fixed a bug in execute_cmd.c that resulted in a compile-time error if
981 JOB_CONTROL was not defined.
983 c. An obscure race condition in the trap code was fixed.
985 d. The string resulting from $'...' is now requoted to avoid any further
988 e. The $'...' quoting syntax now allows backslash to escape a single quote,
989 for ksh-93 compatibility.
991 f. The $"..." quoting syntax now escapes backslashes and double quotes in
992 the translated string when displaying them with the --dump-po-strings
995 g. `echo -e' no longer converts \' to '.
997 h. Fixes were made to the extended globbing code to handle embedded (...)
1000 i. Some improvements were made to the code that unsets `nodelay' mode on
1001 the file descriptor from which bash is reading input.
1003 j. Some changes were made to the replacement termcap library for better
1004 operation on MS-DOS.
1006 k. Some changes were made to the tilde expansion code to handle backslash
1007 as a pathname separator on MS-DOS.
1009 l. The source has been reorganized a little bit -- there is now an `include'
1010 subdirectory, and lib/posixheaders has been removed.
1012 m. Improvements were made to the `read' builtin so that it makes many
1013 fewer read(2) system calls.
1015 n. The expansion of $- will include `c' and `s' when those options are
1016 supplied at shell invocation.
1018 o. Several improvments were made to the completion code: variable completion
1019 now works better when there are unterminated expansions, command
1020 completion understands quotes better, and completion now works in certain
1021 unclosed $(... constructs.
1023 p. The arithmetic expansion code was fixed to not need the value of a
1024 variable being assigned a value (fixes the "ss=09; let ss=10" bug).
1026 q. Some changes were made to make exported environment creation faster.
1028 r. The html documentation will be installed into $(htmldir) if that variable
1029 has a value when `make install' is run.
1031 s. Fixed a bug that would cause the bashrc file to be sourced inappropriately
1032 when bash is started by sshd.
1034 t. The SSH_CLIENT environment variable is no longer auto-exported.
1036 u. A bug that caused redirections with (...) subshells to be performed in
1037 the wrong order was fixed.
1039 v. A bug that occasionally caused inappropriate expansion of assignment
1040 statements in compound array assignments was fixed.
1042 w. The code that parses the words in a compound array assignment was
1043 simplified considerably and should work better now.
1045 x. Fixes to the non-job-control code in nojobs.c to make it POSIX.2-compliant
1046 when a user attempts to retrieve the status of a terminated background
1049 y. Fixes to the `printf' builtin so that it doesn't try to expand all
1050 backslash escape sequences in the format string before parsing it for
1051 % format specifiers.
1053 2. Changes to Readline
1055 a. The history library tries to truncate the history file only if it is a
1058 b. A bug that caused _rl_dispatch to address negative array indices on
1059 systems with signed chars was fixed.
1061 c. rl-yank-nth-arg now leaves the history position the same as when it was
1064 d. Changes to the completion code to handle MS-DOS drive-letter:pathname
1067 e. Completion is now case-insensitive by default on MS-DOS.
1069 f. Fixes to the history file manipulation code for MS-DOS.
1071 g. Readline attempts to bind the arrow keys to appropriate defaults on MS-DOS.
1073 h. Some fixes were made to the redisplay code for better operation on MS-DOS.
1075 i. The quoted-insert code will now insert tty special chars like ^C.
1077 j. A bug was fixed that caused the display code to reference memory before
1078 the start of the prompt string.
1080 k. More support for __EMX__ (OS/2).
1082 l. A bug was fixed in readline's signal handling that could cause infinite
1083 recursion in signal handlers.
1085 m. A bug was fixed that caused the point to be less than zero when rl_forward
1086 was given a very large numeric argument.
1088 n. The vi-mode code now gets characters via the application-settable value
1089 of rl_getc_function rather than calling rl_getc directly.
1091 3. New Features in Bash
1093 a. The history builtin has a `-d offset' option to delete the history entry
1094 at position `offset'.
1096 b. The prompt expansion code has two new escape sequences: \j, the number of
1097 active jobs; and \l, the basename of the shell's tty device name.
1099 c. The `bind' builtin has a new `-x' option to bind key sequences to shell
1102 d. There is a new shell option, no_empty_command_completion, which, when
1103 enabled, disables command completion when TAB is typed on an empty line.
1105 e. The `help' builtin has a `-s' option to just print a builtin's usage
1108 f. There are several new arithmetic operators: id++, id-- (variable
1109 post-increment/decrement), ++id, --id (variabl pre-increment/decrement),
1110 expr1 , expr2 (comma operator).
1112 g. There is a new ksh-93 style arithmetic for command:
1113 for ((expr1 ; expr2; expr3 )); do list; done
1115 h. The `read' builtin has a number of new options:
1116 -t timeout only wait timeout seconds for input
1117 -n nchars only read nchars from input instead of a full line
1118 -d delim read until delim rather than newline
1119 -s don't echo input chars as they are read
1121 i. The redirection code now handles several filenames specially:
1122 /dev/fd/N, /dev/stdin, /dev/stdout, and /dev/stderr, whether or
1123 not they are present in the file system.
1125 j. The redirection code now recognizes pathnames of the form
1126 /dev/tcp/host/port and /dev/udp/host/port, and tries to open a socket
1127 of the appropriate type to the specified port on the specified host.
1129 k. The ksh-93 ${!prefix*} expansion, which expands to the names of all
1130 shell variables whose names start with prefix, has been implemented.
1132 l. There is a new dynamic variable, FUNCNAME, which expands to the name of
1133 a currently-executing function. Assignments to FUNCNAME have no effect.
1135 m. The GROUPS variable is no longer readonly; assignments to it are silently
1136 discarded. This means it can be unset.
1138 4. New Features in Readline
1140 a. Parentheses matching is now always compiled into readline, and enabled
1141 or disabled when the value of the `blink-matching-paren' variable is
1144 b. MS-DOS systems now use ~/_inputrc as the last-ditch inputrc filename.
1146 c. MS-DOS systems now use ~/_history as the default history file.
1148 d. history-search-{forward,backward} now leave the point at the end of the
1149 line when the string to search for is empty, like
1150 {reverse,forward}-search-history.
1152 e. history-search-{forward,backward} now leave the last history line found
1153 in the readline buffer if the second or subsequent search fails.
1155 f. New function for use by applications: rl_on_new_line_with_prompt, used
1156 when an application displays the prompt itself before calling readline().
1158 g. New variable for use by applications: rl_already_prompted. An application
1159 that displays the prompt itself before calling readline() must set this to
1162 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1163 This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.03-release,
1164 and the previous version, bash-2.03-beta2.
1168 a. A file descriptor leak in the `fc' builtin was fixed.
1170 b. A bug was fixed in the `read' builtin that caused occasional spurious
1171 failures when using `read -e'.
1173 c. The version code needed to use the value of the cpp variable
1174 CONF_MACHTYPE rather than MACHTYPE.
1176 d. A new test was added to exercise the command printing and copying code.
1178 e. A bug was fixed that caused `time' to be recognized as a reserved word
1179 if it was the first pattern in a `case' statement pattern list.
1181 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1182 This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.03-beta2,
1183 and the previous version, bash-2.03-beta1.
1187 a. Slight additions to support/shobj-conf, mostly for the benefit of AIX 4.2.
1189 b. config.{guess,sub} support added for the NEC SX4.
1191 c. Changed some of the cross-compiling sections of the configure macros in
1192 aclocal.m4 so that configure won't abort.
1194 d. Slight changes to how the HTML versions of the bash and readline manuals
1197 e. Fixed conditional command printing to avoid interpreting printf `%'-escapes
1200 f. Don't include the bash malloc on all variants of the alpha processor.
1202 g. Changes to configure to make --enable-profiling work on Solaris 2.x.
1204 h. Fixed a bug that manifested itself when shell functions were called
1205 between calls to `getopts'.
1207 i. Fixed pattern substitution so that a bare `#'as a pattern causes the
1208 replacement string to be prefixed to the search string, and a bare
1209 `%' causes the replacement string to be appended to the search string.
1211 j. Fixed a bug in the command execution code that caused child processes
1212 to occasionally have the wrong value for $!.
1214 2. Changes to Readline
1216 a. Added code to the history library to catch history substitutions using
1217 `&' without a previous history substitution or search having been
1220 3. New Features in Bash
1222 4. New Features in Readline
1224 a. New bindable variable: `isearch-terminators'.
1226 b. New bindable function: `forward-backward-delete-char' (unbound by default).
1228 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1229 This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.03-beta1,
1230 and the previous version, bash-2.03-alpha.
1234 a. A change was made to the help text for `{...}' to make it clear that a
1235 semicolon is required before the closing brace.
1237 b. A fix was made to the `test' builtin so that syntax errors cause test
1238 to return an exit status > 1.
1240 c. Globbing is no longer performed on assignment statements that appear as
1241 arguments to `assignment builtins' such as `export'.
1243 d. System-specific configuration changes were made for: Rhapsody,
1244 AIX 4.2/gcc, BSD/OS 4.0.
1246 e. New loadable builtins: ln, unlink.
1248 f. Some fixes were made to the globbing code to handle extended glob patterns
1249 which immediately follow a `*'.
1251 g. A fix was made to the command printing code to ensure that redirections
1252 following compound commands have a space separating them from the rest
1255 h. The pathname canonicalization code was changed to produce fewer leading
1256 `//' sequences, since those are interpreted as network file system
1257 pathnames on some systems.
1259 i. A fix was made so that loops containing `eval' commands in commands passed
1260 to `bash -c' would not exit prematurely.
1262 j. Some changes were made to the job reaping code when the shell is not
1263 interactive, so the shell will retain exit statuses longer for examination
1266 k. A fix was made so that `jobs | command' works again.
1268 l. The erroneous compound array assignment var=((...)) is now a syntax error.
1270 m. A change was made to the dynamic loading code in `enable' to support
1273 n. A fix was made to the globbing code so that extended globbing patterns
1274 will correctly match `.' in a bracket expression.
1276 2. Changes to Readline
1278 a. A fix was made to the completion code in which a typo caused the wrong
1279 value to be passed to the function that computed the longest common
1280 prefix of the list of matches.
1282 b. The completion code now checks the value of rl_filename_completion_desired,
1283 which is set by application-supplied completion functions to indicate
1284 that filename completion is being performed, to decide whether or not to
1285 call an application-supplied `ignore completions' function.
1287 3. New Features in Bash
1289 a. A change was made to the startup file code so that any shell begun with
1290 the `--login' option, even non-interactive shells, will source the login
1291 shell startup files.
1293 4. New Features in Readline
1295 a. A new variable, rl_erase_empty_line, which, if set by an application using
1296 readline, will cause readline to erase, prompt and all, lines on which the
1297 only thing typed was a newline.
1299 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1300 This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.03-alpha,
1301 and the previous version, bash-2.02.1-release.
1305 a. System-specific configuration changes were made for: Irix 6.x, Unixware 7.
1307 b. The texi2dvi and texi2html scripts were updated to the latest versions
1310 c. The configure tests that determine which native type is 32 bits were
1311 changed to not require a compiled program.
1313 d. Fixed a bug in shell_execve that could cause memory to be freed twice
1314 after a failed exec.
1316 e. The `printf' test uses `diff -a' if it's available to prevent confusion
1317 due to the non-ascii output.
1319 f. Shared object configuration is now performed by a shell script,
1320 support/shobj-conf, which generates values to be substituted into
1321 makefiles by configure.
1323 g. Some changes were made to `ulimit' to avoid the use of RLIM_INVALID as a
1326 h. Changes were made to `ulimit' to work around HPUX 9.x's peculiar
1327 handling of RLIMIT_FILESIZE.
1329 i. Some new loadable builtins were added: id, printenv, sync, whoami, push,
1330 mkdir. `pushd', `popd', and `dirs' can now be built as regular or
1331 loadable builtins from the same source file.
1333 j. Changes were made to `printf' to handle NUL bytes in the expanded format
1336 k. The various `make clean' Makefile targets now descend into lib/sh.
1338 l. The `type' builtin was changed to use the internal `getopt' so that things
1339 like `type -ap' work as expected.
1341 m. There is a new configuration option, --with-installed-readline, to link
1342 bash with a locally-installed version of readline. Only readline version
1343 4.0 and later releases can support this. Shared and static libraries
1344 are supported. The installed include files are used.
1346 n. There is a new autoconf macro used to find which basic type is 64 bits.
1348 o. Dynamic linking and loadable builtins should now work on SCO 3.2v5*,
1349 AIX 4.2 with gcc, Unixware 7, and many other systems using gcc, where
1350 the `-shared' options works correctly.
1352 p. A bug was fixed in the bash filename completion code that caused memory to
1353 be freed twice if a directory name containing an unset variable was
1354 completed and the -u option was set.
1356 q. The prompt expansion code now quotes the `$' in the `\$' expansion so it
1357 is not processed by subsequent parameter expansion.
1359 r. Fixed a parsing bug that caused a single or double quote after a `$$' to
1360 trigger ANSI C expansion or locale translation.
1362 s. Fixed a bug in the globbing code that caused quoted filenames containing
1363 no globbing characters to sometimes be incorrectly expanded.
1365 t. Changes to the default prompt strings if prompt string decoding is not
1366 compiled into the shell.
1368 u. Added `do', `then', `else', `{', and `(' to the list of keywords that may
1369 precede the `time' reserved word.
1371 v. The shell may now be cross-built for BeOS as well as cygwin32.
1373 w. The conditional command execution code now treats `=' the same as `=='
1374 for deciding when to perform pattern matching.
1376 x. The `-e' option no longer causes the shell to exit if a command exits
1377 with a non-zero status while running the startup files.
1379 y. The `printf' builtin no longer dumps core if a modifier is supplied in
1380 the format string without a conversion character (e.g. `%h').
1382 z. Array assignments of the form a=(...) no longer show up in the history
1385 aa. The parser was fixed to obey the POSIX.2 rules for finding the closing
1386 `}' in a ${...} expression.
1388 bb. The history file is now opened with mode 0600 rather than 0666, so bash
1389 no longer relies on the user's umask being set appropriately.
1391 cc. Setting LANG no longer causes LC_ALL to be assigned a value; bash now
1392 relies on proper behavior from the C library.
1394 dd. Minor changes were made to allow quoted variable expansions using
1395 ${...} to be completed correctly if there is no closing `"'.
1397 ee. Changes were made to builtins/Makefile.in so that configuring the shell
1398 with `--enable-profiling' works right and builtins/mkbuiltins is
1401 2. Changes to Readline
1403 a. The version number is now 4.0.
1405 b. There is no longer any #ifdef SHELL code in the source files.
1407 c. Some changes were made to the key binding code to fix memory leaks and
1408 better support Win32 systems.
1410 d. Fixed a silly typo in the paren matching code -- it's microseconds, not
1413 e. The readline library should be compilable by C++ compilers.
1415 f. The readline.h public header file now includes function prototypes for
1416 all readline functions, and some changes were made to fix errors in the
1417 source files uncovered by the use of prototypes.
1419 g. The maximum numeric argument is now clamped at 1000000.
1421 h. Fixes to rl_yank_last_arg to make it behave better.
1423 i. Fixed a bug in the display code that caused core dumps if the prompt
1424 string length exceeded 1024 characters.
1426 j. The menu completion code was fixed to properly insert a single completion
1427 if there is only one match.
1429 k. A bug was fixed that caused the display code to improperly display tabs
1432 3. New Features in Bash
1434 a. New `shopt' option, `restricted_shell', indicating whether or not the
1435 shell was started in restricted mode, for use in startup files.
1437 b. Filename generation is now performed on the words between ( and ) in
1438 array assignments (which it probably should have done all along).
1440 c. OLDPWD is now auto-exported, as POSIX.2 seems to require.
1442 d. ENV and BASH_ENV are read-only variables in a restricted shell.
1444 4. New Features in Readline
1446 a. Many changes to the signal handling:
1447 o Readline now catches SIGQUIT and cleans up the tty before returning;
1448 o A new variable, rl_catch_signals, is available to application writers
1449 to indicate to readline whether or not it should install its own
1450 signal handlers for SIGINT, SIGTERM, SIGQUIT, SIGALRM, SIGTSTP,
1451 SIGTTIN, and SIGTTOU;
1452 o A new variable, rl_catch_sigwinch, is available to application
1453 writers to indicate to readline whether or not it should install its
1454 own signal handler for SIGWINCH, which will chain to the calling
1455 applications's SIGWINCH handler, if one is installed;
1456 o There is a new function, rl_free_line_state, for application signal
1457 handlers to call to free up the state associated with the current
1458 line after receiving a signal;
1459 o There is a new function, rl_cleanup_after_signal, to clean up the
1460 display and terminal state after receiving a signal;
1461 o There is a new function, rl_reset_after_signal, to reinitialize the
1462 terminal and display state after an application signal handler
1463 returns and readline continues
1465 b. There is a new function, rl_resize_terminal, to reset readline's idea of
1466 the screen size after a SIGWINCH.
1468 c. New public functions: rl_save_prompt and rl_restore_prompt. These were
1469 previously private functions with a `_' prefix.
1471 d. New function hook: rl_pre_input_hook, called just before readline starts
1472 reading input, after initialization.
1474 e. New function hook: rl_display_matches_hook, called when readline would
1475 display the list of completion matches. The new function
1476 rl_display_match_list is what readline uses internally, and is available
1477 for use by application functions called via this hook.
1479 f. New bindable function, delete-char-or-list, like tcsh.
1481 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1482 This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.02.1-release,
1483 and the previous version, bash-2.02-release.
1487 a. A bug that caused the bash readline support to not compile unless aliases
1488 and csh-style history were configured into the shell was fixed.
1490 b. Fixed a bug that could cause a core dump when here documents contained
1491 more than 1000 characters.
1493 c. Fixed a bug that caused a CDPATH entry of "" to not be treated the same
1494 as the current directory when in POSIX mode.
1496 d. Fixed an alignment problem with the memory returned by the bash malloc,
1497 so returned memory is now 64-bit aligned.
1499 e. Fixed a bug that caused command substitutions executed within pipelines
1500 to put the terminal in the wrong process group.
1502 f. Fixes to support/config.sub for: alphas, SCO Open Server and Open Desktop,
1503 Unixware 2, and Unixware 7.
1505 g. Fixes to the pattern matching code to make it work correctly for eight-bit
1508 h. Fixed a problem that occasionally caused the shell to display the wrong
1509 value for the new working directory when changing to a directory found
1510 in $CDPATH when in physical mode.
1512 i. Fixed a bug that caused core dumps when using conditional commands in
1515 j. Fixed a bug that caused the printf builtin to loop forever if the format
1516 string did not consume any of the arguments.
1518 k. Fixed a bug in the parameter expansion code that caused "$@" to be
1519 incorrectly split if $IFS did not contain a space character.
1521 l. Fixed a bug that could cause a core dump when completing hostnames if
1522 the number of matching hostnames was an exact multiple of 16.
1524 m. Fixed a bug that caused the shell to fork too early when a command
1525 such as `%2 &' was given.
1527 2. Changes to Readline
1529 a. Fixed a problem with redisplay that showed up when the prompt string was
1530 longer than the screen width and the prompt contained invisible characters.
1532 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1533 This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.02-release,
1534 and the previous version, bash-2.02-beta2.
1538 a. A bug was fixed that caused the terminal process group to be set
1539 incorrectly when performing command substitution of builtins in a
1542 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1543 This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.02-beta2,
1544 and the previous version, bash-2.02-beta1.
1548 a. Attempting to `wait' for stopped jobs now generates a warning message.
1550 b. Pipelines which exit due to SIGPIPE in non-interactive shells are now
1551 not reported if the shell is compiled -DDONT_REPORT_SIGPIPE.
1553 c. Some changes were made to builtins/psize.sh and support/bashbug.sh to
1554 attempt to avoid some /tmp file races and surreptitious file
1557 d. Fixed a bug that caused the shell not to compile if configured with
1558 dparen arithmetic but without aliases.
1560 e. Fixed a bug that caused the input stream to be switched when assigning
1561 empty arrays with `bash -c'.
1563 f. A bug was fixed in the readline expansion glue code that caused bash to
1564 dump core when expanding lines with an unclosed single quote.
1566 g. A fix was made to the `cd' builtin so that using a non-empty directory
1567 from $CDPATH results in an absolute pathname of the new current working
1568 directory to be displayed after the current directory is changed.
1570 h. Fixed a bug in the variable assignment code that caused the shell to
1571 dump core when referencing an unset variable with `set -u' enabled in
1572 an assignment statement preceding a command.
1574 i. Fixed a bug in the exit trap code that caused reserved words to not be
1575 recognized under certain circumstances.
1577 j. Fixed a bug in the parameter pattern substitution code so that quote
1578 removal is performed.
1580 k. The shell should now configure correctly on Apple Rhapsody systems.
1582 l. The `kill' builtin now prints a usage message if it is not passed any
1585 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1586 This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.02-beta1,
1587 and the previous version, bash-2.02-alpha1.
1591 a. A few compilation bugs were fixed in the new extended globbing code.
1593 b. Executing arithmetic commands now sets the command name to `((' so
1594 error messages look right.
1596 c. Fixed some build problems with various configuration options.
1598 d. The `printf' builtin now aborts immediately if an illegal format
1599 character is encountered.
1601 e. The code that creates here-documents now behaves better if the file it's
1602 trying to create already exists for some reason.
1604 f. Fixed a problem with the extended globbing code that made patterns like
1605 `x+*' expand incorrectly.
1607 g. The prompt string expansion code no longer quotes tildes with backslashes.
1609 h. The bash getcwd() implementation in lib/sh/getcwd.c now behaves better in
1610 the presence of lstat(2) failures.
1612 i. Fixed a bug with strsub() that caused core dumps when executing `fc -s'.
1614 j. The mail checking code now ensures that it has a valid default mailpath.
1616 k. A bug was fixed that caused local variables to be unset inappropriately
1617 when sourcing a script from within another sourced script.
1619 l. A bug was fixed in the history saving code so that functions are saved
1620 in the history list correctly if `cmdhist' is enabled, but `lithist'
1623 m. A bug was fixed that caused printf overflows when displaying error
1626 n. It should be easier to build the loadble builtins in examples/loadables,
1627 though some manual editing of the generated Makefile is still required.
1629 o. The user's primary group is now always ${GROUPS[0]}.
1631 p. Some updates were made to support/config.guess from the GNU master copy.
1633 q. Some changes were made to the autoconf support for Solaris 2.6 large
1636 r. The `command' builtins now does the right thing when confstr(3) cannot
1637 find a value for _CS_PATH.
1639 s. Extended globbing expressions like `*.!(c)' are not history expanded if
1640 `extglob' is enabled.
1642 t. Using the `-P' option to `cd' will force the value that is assigned to
1643 PWD to not contain any symbolic links.
1645 2. Changes to Readline
1647 a. The code that prints completion listings now behaves better if one or
1648 more of the filenames contains non-printable characters.
1650 b. The time delay when showing matching parentheses is now 0.5 seconds.
1652 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1653 This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.02-alpha1,
1654 and the previous version, bash-2.01.1-release.
1658 a. OS-specific configuration changes for: BSD/OS 3.x, Minix 2.x,
1659 Solaris 2.6, SINIX SVR4.
1661 b. Changes were made to the generated `info' files so that `install-info'
1664 c. PWD is now auto-exported.
1666 d. A fix was made to the pipeline code to make sure that the shell forks
1667 to execute simple commands consisting solely of assignment statements.
1669 e. Changes to the test suite for systems with 14-character filenames.
1671 f. The default sizes of some internal hash tables have been made smaller
1672 to reduce the shell's memory footprint.
1674 g. The `((...))' arithmetic command is now executed directly instead of
1675 being translated into `let "..."'.
1677 h. Fixes were made to the expansion code so that "$*", "$@", "${array[@]}",
1678 and "${array[@]}" expand correctly when IFS does not contain a space
1679 character, is unset, or is set to NULL.
1681 i. The indirect expansion code (${!var}) was changed so that the only
1682 valid values of `var' are variable names, positional parameters, `#',
1685 j. An arithmetic expression error in a $((...)) expansion now causes a
1686 non-interactive shell running in posix mode to exit.
1688 k. Compound array assignment now splits the words within the parentheses
1689 on shell metacharacters like the parser would before expansing them
1690 and performing the assignment. This is for compatibility with ksh-93.
1692 l. The internal shell backslash-quoting code (used in the output of `set'
1693 and completion) now quotes tildes if they appear at the start of the
1694 string or after a `=' or `:'.
1696 m. A couple of bugs with `shopt -o' were fixed.
1698 n. `bash +o' now displays the same output as `set +o' before starting an
1701 o. A bug that caused command substitution and the `eval' builtin to
1702 occasionally free memory twice when an error was encountered was fixed.
1704 p. The filename globbing code no longer requires read permission for a
1705 directory when the filename to be matched does not contain any globbing
1706 characters, as POSIX.2 specifies.
1708 q. A bug was fixed so that the job containing the last asynchronous
1709 process is not removed from the job table until a `wait' is executed
1710 for that process or another asynchronous process is started. This
1711 satisfies a POSIX.2 requirement.
1713 r. A `select' bug was fixed so that a non-numeric user response is treated
1714 the same as a numeric response that is out of range.
1716 s. The shell no longer parses the value of SHELLOPTS from the environment
1717 if it is restricted, running setuid, or running in `privileged mode'.
1719 t. Fixes were made to enable large file support on systems such as
1720 Solaris 2.6, where the size of a file may be larger than can be held
1723 u. The filename hashing code was fixed to not add `./' to the beginning of
1724 filenames which already begin with `./'.
1726 v. The configure script was changed so that the GNU termcap library is not
1727 compiled in if `prefer-curses' has been specified.
1729 w. HISTCONTROL and HISTIGNORE are no longer applied to the second and
1730 subsequent lines of a multi-line command.
1732 x. A fix was made to `disown' so that it does a better job of catching
1735 y. Non-interactive shells no longer report the status of processes terminated
1736 due to SIGINT, even if the standard output is a terminal.
1738 z. A bug that caused the output of `jobs' to have extra carriage returns
1741 aa. A bug that caused PIPESTATUS to not be set when builtins or shell
1742 functions were executed in the foreground was fixed.
1744 bb. Bash now attempts to detect when it is being run by sshd, and treats
1745 that case identically to being run by rshd.
1747 cc. A bug that caused `set -a' to export SHELLOPTS when one of the shell
1748 options was changed was fixed.
1750 dd. The `kill' builtin now disallows empty or missing process id arguments
1751 instead of treating them as identical to `0', which means the current
1754 ee. `var=value declare -x var' now behaves identically to
1755 `var=value export var'. Similarly for `var=value declare -r var' and
1756 `var=value readonly var'.
1758 ff. A few memory leaks were fixed.
1760 gg. `alias' and `unalias' now print error messages when passed an argument
1761 that is not an alias for printing or deletion, even when the shell is
1762 not interactive, as POSIX.2 specifies.
1764 hh. `alias' and `alias -p' now return a status of 0 when no aliases are
1765 defined, as POSIX.2 specifes.
1767 ii. `cd -' now prints the pathname of the new working directory if the shell
1770 jj. A fix was made so that the code that binds $PWD now copes with getcwd()
1773 kk. `unset' now checks whether or not a function name it's trying to unset
1774 is a valid shell identifier only when the shell is running in posix mode.
1776 ll. A change was made to the code that generates filenames for here documents
1777 to make them less prone to name collisions.
1779 mm. The parser was changed so that `time' is recognized as a reserved word
1780 only at the beginning of a pipeline.
1782 nn. The pathname canonicalization code was changed so that `//' is converted
1783 into `/', but all other pathnames beginning with `//' are left alone, as
1786 oo. The `logout' builtin will no longer exit a non-interactive non-login
1789 2. Changes to Readline
1791 a. Fixed a problem in the readline test program rltest.c that caused a core
1794 b. The code that handles parser directives in inputrc files now displays
1795 more error messages.
1797 c. The history expansion code was fixed so that the appearance of the
1798 history comment character at the beginning of a word inhibits history
1799 expansion for that word and the rest of the input line.
1801 3. New Features in Bash
1803 a. A new version of malloc, based on the older GNU malloc, that has many
1804 changes, is more page-based, is more conservative with memory usage,
1805 and does not `orphan' large blocks when they are freed.
1807 b. A new version of gmalloc, based on the old GLIBC malloc, with many
1808 changes and range checking included by default.
1810 c. A new implementation of fnmatch(3) that includes full POSIX.2 Basic
1811 Regular Expression matching, including character classes, collating
1812 symbols, equivalence classes, and support for case-insensitive pattern
1815 d. ksh-88 egrep-style extended pattern matching ([@+*?!](patlist)) has been
1816 implemented, controlled by a new `shopt' option, `extglob'.
1818 e. There is a new ksh-like `[[' compound command, which implements
1819 extended `test' functionality.
1821 f. There is a new `printf' builtin, implemented according to the POSIX.2
1824 g. There is a new feature for command substitution: $(< filename) now expands
1825 to the contents of `filename', with any trailing newlines removed
1826 (equivalent to $(cat filename)).
1828 h. There are new tilde prefixes which expand to directories from the
1831 i. There is a new `**' arithmetic operator to do exponentiation.
1833 j. There are new configuration options to control how bash is linked:
1834 `--enable-profiling', to allow bash to be profiled with gprof, and
1835 `--enable-static-link', to allow bash to be linked statically.
1837 k. There is a new configuration option, `--enable-cond-command', which
1838 controls whether or not the `[[' command is included. It is on by
1841 l. There is a new configuration option, `--enable-extended-glob', which
1842 controls whether or not the ksh extended globbing feature is included.
1843 It is enabled by default.
1845 m. There is a new configuration #define in config.h.top that, when enabled,
1846 will cause all login shells to source /etc/profile and one of the user-
1847 specific login shell startup files, whether or not the shell is
1850 n. There is a new invocation option, `--dump-po-strings', to dump
1851 a shell script's translatable strings ($"...") in GNU `po' format.
1853 o. There is a new `shopt' option, `nocaseglob', to enable case-insensitive
1854 pattern matching when globbing filenames and using the `case' construct.
1856 p. There is a new `shopt' option, `huponexit', which, when enabled, causes
1857 the shell to send SIGHUP to all jobs when an interactive login shell
1860 q. `bind' has a new `-u' option, which takes a readline function name as an
1861 argument and unbinds all key sequences bound to that function in a
1864 r. `disown' now has `-a' and `-r' options, to limit operation to all jobs
1865 and running jobs, respectively.
1867 s. The `shopt' `-p' option now causes output to be displayed in a reusable
1870 t. `test' has a new `-N' option, which returns true if the filename argument
1871 has been modified since it was last accessed.
1873 u. `umask' now has a `-p' option to print output in a reusable format.
1875 v. A new escape sequence, `\xNNN', has been added to the `echo -e' and $'...'
1876 translation code. It expands to the character whose ascii code is NNN
1879 w. The prompt string expansion code has a new `\r' escape sequence.
1881 x. The shell may now be cross-compiled for the CYGWIN32 environment on
1884 4. New Features in Readline
1886 a. There is now an option for `iterative' yank-last-arg handline, so a user
1887 can keep entering `M-.', yanking the last argument of successive history
1890 b. New variable, `print-completions-horizontally', which causes completion
1891 matches to be displayed across the screen (like `ls -x') rather than up
1892 and down the screen (like `ls').
1894 c. New variable, `completion-ignore-case', which causes filename completion
1895 and matching to be performed case-insensitively.
1897 d. There is a new bindable command, `magic-space', which causes history
1898 expansion to be performed on the current readline buffer and a space to
1899 be inserted into the result.
1901 e. There is a new bindable command, `menu-complete', which enables tcsh-like
1902 menu completion (successive executions of menu-complete insert a single
1903 completion match, cycling through the list of possible completions).
1905 f. There is a new bindable command, `paste-from-clipboard', for use on Win32
1906 systems, to insert the text from the Win32 clipboard into the editing
1909 g. The key sequence translation code now understands printf-style backslash
1910 escape sequences, including \NNN octal escapes. These escape sequences
1911 may be used in key sequence definitions or macro values.
1913 h. An `$include' inputrc file parser directive has been added.
1915 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1916 This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.01.1-release,
1917 and the previous version, bash-2.01-release.
1921 a. The select command was fixed to check the validity of the user's
1922 input more strenuously.
1924 b. A bug was fixed that prevented `time' from timing commands correctly
1925 when supplied as an argument to `bash -c'.
1927 c. A fix was made to the mail checking code to keep from adding the same
1928 mail file to the list of files to check multiple times when parsing
1931 d. Fixed an off-by-one error in the tilde expansion library.
1933 e. When using the compound array assignment syntax, the old value of
1934 the array is cleared before assigning the new value.
1936 f. Fixed a bug that could cause a core dump when a trap handler was reset
1937 to the default in the trap command associated with that signal.
1939 g. Fixed a bug in the locale code that occurred when assigning a value
1942 h. A change was made to the parser so that words of the form xxx=(...)
1943 are not considered compound assignment statements unless there are
1944 characters before the `='.
1946 i. A fix was made to the command tracing code to correctly quote each
1949 j. Some changes were made to the bash-specific autoconf tests to make them
1952 k. Completion of words with globbing characters now correctly quotes the
1955 l. The directory /var/spool/mail is now preferred to /usr/spool/mail when
1956 configure is deciding on the default mail directory.
1958 m. The brace completion code was fixed to not quote the `{' and `}'.
1960 n. Some fixes were made to make $RANDOM more random in subshells.
1962 o. System-specific changes were made to configure for: SVR4.2
1964 p. Changes were made so that completion of words containing globbing chars
1965 substitutes the result only if a single filename was matched.
1967 q. The window size is now recomputed after a job is stopped with SIGTSTP if
1968 the user has set `checkwinsize' with `shopt'.
1970 r. When doing substring expansion, out-of-range substring specifiers now
1971 cause nothing to be substituted rather than an expansion error.
1973 s. A fix was made so that you can no longer trap `SIGEXIT' or `SIGDEBUG' --
1974 only `EXIT' and `DEBUG' are accepted.
1976 t. The display of trapped signals now uses the signal number if signals
1977 for which bash does not know the name are trapped.
1979 u. A fix was made so that `bash -r' does not turn on restricted mode until
1980 after the startup files are executed.
1982 v. A bug was fixed that occasionally caused a core dump when a variable
1983 found in the temporary environment of export/declare/readonly had a
1986 w. A bug that occasionally caused unallocated memory to be passed to free()
1987 when doing arithmetic substitution was fixed.
1989 x. A bug that caused a buffer overrun when expanding a prompt string
1990 containing `\w' and ${#PWD} exceeded PATH_MAX was fixed.
1992 y. A problem with the completion code that occasionally caused it to
1993 refer to a character before the beginning of the readline line buffer
1996 z. A bug was fixed so that the `read' builtin restarts reads when
1997 interrupted by signals other than SIGINT.
1999 aa. Fixed a bug that caused a command to be freed twice when there was
2000 an evaluation error in the `eval' command.
2002 2. Changes to Readline
2004 a. Added a missing `extern' to a declaration in readline.h that kept
2005 readline from compiling cleanly on some systems.
2007 b. The history file is now opened with mode 0600 when it is written for
2010 c. Changes were made to the SIGWINCH handling code so that prompt redisplay
2013 d. ^G now interrupts incremental searches correctly.
2015 e. A bug that caused a core dump when the set of characters to be quoted
2016 when completing words was empty was fixed.
2018 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2019 This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.01-release,
2020 and the previous version, bash-2.01-beta2.
2024 a. The `distclean' target should remove the `printenv' executable if it
2027 b. The test suite was changed slightly to ensure that the error messages
2028 are printed in English.
2030 c. A bug that caused the shell to dump core when a filename containing a
2031 `/' was passed to `hash' was fixed.
2033 d. Pathname canonicalization now leaves a leading `//' intact, as POSIX.1
2036 e. A memory leak when completing commands was fixed.
2038 f. A memory leak that occurred when checking the hash table for commands
2039 with relative paths was fixed.
2041 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2042 This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.01-beta2,
2043 and the previous version, bash-2.01-beta1.
2047 a. The `ulimit' builtin translates RLIM_INFINITY to the hard limit only if
2048 the current (soft) limit is less than or equal to the hard limit.
2050 b. Fixed a bug that caused the bash emulation of strcasecmp to produce
2053 c. A bug that caused memory to be freed twice when a trap handler resets
2054 the trap more than once was fixed.
2056 d. A bug that caused machines where sizeof (pointer) > sizeof (int) to
2057 fail (and possibly dump core) when trying to unwind-protect a null
2060 e. The startup files should not be run with job control enabled. This fix
2061 allows SIGINT to once again interrupt startup file execution.
2063 f. Bash should not change the SIGPROF handler if it is set to something
2066 g. The completion code that provides bash-specific completions for readline
2067 now quotes characters that the readline code would treat as word break
2068 characters if they appear in a file name.
2070 h. The completion code now correctly quotes filenames containing a `!',
2071 even if the user attempted to use double quotes when attempting
2074 i. A bug that caused the shell to dump core when `disown' was called without
2075 arguments and there was no current job was fixed.
2077 j. A construct like $((foo);bar) is now processed as a command substitution
2078 rather than as a bad arithmetic substitution.
2080 k. A couple of bugs that caused `fc' to not obey the `cmdhist' and `lithist'
2081 shell options when editing and re-executing a series of commands were
2084 l. A fix was made to the grammar -- the list of commands between `do' and
2085 `done' in the body of a `for' command should be treated the same as a
2088 2. Changes to Readline
2090 a. A couple of bugs that caused the history search functions to attempt to
2091 free a NULL pointer were fixed.
2093 b. If the C library provides setlocale(3), readline does not need to look
2094 at various environment variables to decide whether or not to go into
2095 eight-bit mode automatically -- just check whether the current locale
2096 is not `C' or `POSIX'.
2098 c. If the filename completion function finds that a directory was not closed
2099 by a previous (interrupted) completion, it closes the directory with
2102 3. New Features in Bash
2104 a. New bindable readline commands: history-and-alias-expand-line and
2105 alias-expand-line. The code was always in there, there was just no
2108 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2109 This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.01-beta1,
2110 and the previous version, bash-2.01-alpha1.
2114 a. Fixed a problem that could cause file descriptors used for process
2115 substitution to conflict with those used explicitly in redirections.
2117 b. Made it easier to regenerate configure if the user changes configure.in.
2119 c. ${GROUPS[0]} should always be the primary group, even on systems without
2122 d. Spelling correction is no longer enabled by default.
2124 e. Fixes to quoting problems in `bashbug'.
2126 f. OS-specific configuration changes were made for: Irix 6.
2128 g. OS-specific code changes were made for: QNX.
2130 h. A more meaningful message is now printed when the file in /tmp for a
2131 here document cannot be created.
2133 i. Many changes to the shell's variable initialization code to speed
2134 non-interactive startup.
2136 j. Changes to the non-job-control code so that it does not try to open
2139 k. The output of `set' and `export' is once again sorted, as POSIX wants.
2141 l. Fixed a problem caused by a recursive call reparsing the value of
2144 m. The tilde code no longer calls getenv() when it's compiled as part of
2145 the shell, which should eliminate problems on systems that cannot
2146 redefine getenv(), like the NeXT OS.
2148 n. Fixed a problem that caused `bash -o' or `bash +o' to not list all
2151 o. Fixed `ulimit' to convert RLIM_INFINITY to the appropriate hard limit
2152 only if the hard limit is greater than the current (soft) limit.
2154 p. Fixed a problem that arose when building bash in a different directory
2155 than the source and y.tab.[ch] were remade with something other than
2156 bison. This came up most often on NetBSD.
2158 q. Fixed a problem with completion -- it thought that `pwd`/[TAB] indicated
2159 an unfinished command completion (`/), which generated errors.
2161 r. The bash special tilde expansions (~-, ~+) are now attempted before
2162 calling the standard tilde expansion code, which should eliminate the
2163 problems people have been seeing with this on Solaris 2.5.1.
2165 s. Added support for <stdarg.h> to places where it was missing.
2167 t. Changed the code that reads the output of a command substitution to not
2168 go through stdio. This reduces the memory requirements and is faster.
2170 u. A number of changes to speed up export environment creation were made.
2172 v. A number of memory leaks were fixed as the result of running the test
2173 scripts through Purify.
2175 w. Fixed a bug that caused subshells forked to interpret executable
2176 scripts without a leading `#!' to not reinitialize the values of
2179 2. Changes to Readline
2181 a. History library has less `#ifdef SHELL' code -- abstracted stuff out
2182 into application-specific function hooks.
2184 b. Readline no longer calls getenv() if it's compiled as part of the shell,
2185 which should eliminate problems on systems that cannot redefine getenv(),
2188 c. Fixed translation of ESC when `untranslating' macro values.
2190 d. The region kill operation now fixes the mark if it ends up beyond the
2191 boundaries of the line after the region is deleted.
2193 3. New Features in Bash
2195 a. New argument for `configure': `--with-curses'. This can be used to
2196 override the selection of the termcap library on systems where it is
2199 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2200 This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.01-alpha1,
2201 and the previous version, bash-2.0-release.
2205 a. System-specific configuration changes for: FreeBSD, SunOS4, Irix,
2206 MachTen, QNX 4.2, Harris Night Hawk, SunOS5.
2208 b. System-specific code changes were made for: Linux, 4.4 BSD, QNX 4.2,
2211 c. A bug that caused the exec builtin to fail because the full pathname of
2212 the command could not be found was fixed.
2214 d. The code that performs output redirections is now more resistant to
2215 race conditions and possible security exploits.
2217 e. A bug that caused the shell to dump core when performing pattern
2218 substitutions on variable values was fixed.
2220 f. More hosts are now recognized by the auto-configuration mechanism
2221 (OpenBSD, QNX, others).
2223 g. Assignments to read-only variables that attempt to convert them to
2224 arrays are now errors.
2226 h. A bug that caused shell scripts using array assignments in POSIX mode
2227 to exit after the assignment was performed was fixed.
2229 i. The substring expansion code is now more careful about running off the
2230 ends of the expanded variable value.
2232 j. A bug that caused completion to fail if a backquoted command substitution
2233 appeared anywhere on the line was fixed.
2235 k. The `source' builtin no longer turns off history if it has been enabled
2236 in a non-interactive shell.
2238 l. A bug that caused the shell to crash when `disown' was given a pid
2239 instead of a job number was fixed.
2241 m. The `cd' spelling correction code will not try to change to `.' if no
2242 directory entries match a single-character argument.
2244 n. A bad variable name supplied to `declare', `export', or `readonly' no
2245 longer causes a non-interactive shell in POSIX mode to exit.
2247 o. Some fixes were made to the test suite to handle peculiarities of
2248 various Unix versions.
2250 p. The bash completion code now quotes characters that readline would
2251 treat as word breaks for completion but are not shell metacharacters.
2253 q. Bad options supplied at invocation now cause a usage message to be
2256 r. Fixes were made to the code that handles DEBUG traps so that the trap
2257 string is not freed inappropriately.
2259 s. Some changes were made to the bash debugger in examples/bashdb -- it
2260 should be closer to working now.
2262 t. A problem that caused the default filename used for mail checking to be
2265 u. A fix was made to the `echo' builtin so that NUL characters printed with
2266 `echo -e' do not cause the output to be truncated.
2268 v. A fix was made to the job control code so that the shell behaves better
2269 when monitor mode is enabled in a non-interactive shell.
2271 w. Bash no longer catches all of the terminating signals in a non-
2272 interactive shell until a trap is set on EXIT, which should result in
2275 x. A fix was made to the command timing code so that `time' can be used in
2278 y. A fix was made to the parser so that `((cmd); cmd2)' is now parsed as
2279 a nested subshell rather than strictly as an (erroneous) arithmetic
2282 z. A fix was made to the globbing code so that it correctly matches quoted
2283 filenames beginning with a `.'.
2285 aa. A bug in `fc' that caused some multi-line commands to not be stored as
2286 one command in the history when they were re-executed after editing
2287 (with `fc -e') was fixed.
2289 bb. The `ulimit' builtin now attempts to catch some classes of integer
2292 cc. The command-oriented-history code no longer attempts to add `;'
2293 inappropriately when a newline appears while reading a $(...) command
2296 dd. A bug that caused the shell to dump core when `help --' was executed
2299 ee. A bug that caused the shell to crash when an unset variable appeared
2300 in the body of a here document after `set -u' had been executed was
2303 ff. Implicit input redirections from /dev/null for asynchronous commands
2304 are now handled better.
2306 gg. A bug that caused the shell to fail to compile when configured with
2307 `--disable-readline' was fixed.
2309 hh. The globbing code should now be interruptible.
2311 ii. Bash now notices when the `kill' builtin is used to send SIGCONT to a
2312 stopped job and adjusts the data structures accordingly, as if `bg' had
2313 been executed instead.
2315 jj. A bug that caused the shell to crash when mixing calls to `getopts'
2316 and `shift' on the same set of positional parameters was fixed.
2318 kk. The command printing code now preserves the `-p' flag to `time'.
2320 ll. The command printing code now handles here documents better when there
2321 are other redirections associated with the command.
2323 mm. The special glibc environment variable (NNN_GNU_nonoption_argv_flags_)
2324 is no longer placed into the environment of executed commands -- users
2325 of glibc had too many problems with it.
2327 nn. Reorganized the code that generates signames.h. The signal_names list
2328 is now more complete but may be slightly different (SIGABRT is favored
2329 over SIGIOT, for example). The preferred signal names are those
2330 listed in the POSIX.2 standard.
2332 oo. `bashbug' now uses a filename shorter than 14 characters for its
2333 temporary file, and asks for confirmation before sending the bug
2336 pp. A bug that caused TAB completion in vi editing mode to not be turned
2337 off when `set -o posix' was executed or back on when `set +o posix'
2338 was executed was fixed.
2340 qq. A bug in the brace expansion code that caused brace expansions appearing
2341 in new-style $(...) command substitutions to be inappropriately expanded
2344 rr. A bug in the readline hook shell-expand-line that could cause memory to
2345 be inappropriately freed was fixed.
2347 ss. A bug that caused some arithmetic expressions containing `&&' and `||'
2348 to be parsed with the wrong precedence has been fixed.
2350 tt. References to unbound variables after `set -u' has been executed now
2351 cause the shell to exit immediately, as they should.
2353 uu. A bug that caused the shell to exit inappropriately when `set -e' had
2354 been executed and a command's return status was being inverted with the
2355 `!' reserved word was fixed.
2357 vv. A bug that could occasionally cause the shell to crash with a
2358 divide-by-zero error when timing a command was fixed.
2360 ww. A bug that caused parameter pattern substitution to leave stray
2361 backslashes in the replacement string when the expression is in
2362 double quotes was fixed.
2364 xx. The `break' and `continue' builtins now break out of all loops when an
2365 invalid count argument is supplied.
2367 yy. Fixed a bug that caused PATH to be set to the empty string if
2368 `command -p' is executed with PATH unset.
2370 zz. Fixed `kill -l signum' to print the signal name without the `SIG' prefix,
2373 aaa. Fixed a bug that caused the shell to crash while setting $SHELLOPTS
2374 if there were no shell options set.
2376 bbb. Fixed `export -p' and `readonly -p' so that when the shell is in POSIX
2377 mode, their output is as POSIX.2 specifies.
2379 ccc. Fixed a bug in `readonly' so that `readonly -a avar=(...)' actually
2380 creates an array variable.
2382 ddd. Fixed a bug that prevented `time' from correctly timing background
2385 2. Changes to Readline
2387 a. A bug that caused an extra newline to be printed when the cursor was on
2388 an otherwise empty line was fixed.
2390 b. An instance of memory being used after it was freed was corrected.
2392 c. The redisplay code now works when the prompt is longer than the screen
2395 d. `dump-macros' is now a bindable name, as it should have been all along.
2397 e. Non-printable characters are now expanded when displaying macros and
2400 f. The `dump-variables' and `dump-macros' commands now output a leading
2401 newline if they're called as the result of a key sequence, rather
2402 than directly by an application.
2404 3. New Features in Bash
2406 a. There is a new builtin array variable: GROUPS, the set of groups to which
2407 the user belongs. This is used by the test suite.
2409 4. New Features in Readline
2411 a. If a key sequence bound to `universal-argument' is read while reading a
2412 numeric argument started with `universal-argument', it terminates the
2413 argument but is otherwise ignored. This provides a way to insert multiple
2414 instances of a digit string, and is how GNU emacs does it.
2416 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2417 This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.0-release,
2418 and the previous version, bash-2.0-beta3.
2422 a. Fix to the `getopts' builtin so that it does the right thing when a
2423 required option argument is not present.
2425 b. The completion code now updates the common prefix of matched names
2426 after FIGNORE processing is done, since any names that were removed
2427 may have changed the common prefix.
2429 c. Fixed a bug that made messages in MAILPATH entries not work correctly.
2431 d. Fixed a serious documentation error in the description of the new
2432 ${parameter:offset[:length]} expansion.
2434 e. Fixes to make parameter substring expansion ({$param:offset[:length]})
2435 work when within double quotes.
2437 f. Fixes to make ^A (CTLESC) survive an unquoted expansion of positional
2440 g. Corrected a misspelling of `unlimited' in the output of `ulimit'.
2442 h. Fixed a bug that caused executable scripts without a leading `#!' to
2443 occasionally pick up the wrong set of positional parameters.
2445 i. Linux systems now have a working `ulimit -v', using RLIMIT_AS.
2447 j. Updated config.guess so that many more machine types are recognized.
2449 k. Fixed a bug with backslash-quoted slashes in the ${param/pat[/sub]}
2452 l. If the shell is named `-su', and `-c command' is supplied, read and
2453 execute the login shell startup files even though the shell is not
2454 interactive. This is to support the `-' option to `su'.
2456 m. Fixed a bug that caused core dumps when the DEBUG trap was ignored
2457 with `trap "" DEBUG' and a shell function was subsequently executed.
2459 n. Fixed a bug that caused core dumps in the read builtin when IFS was
2460 set to the null string and the input had leading whitespace.
2462 2. Changes to Readline
2464 a. Fixed a bug that caused a numeric argument of 1024 to be ignored when
2467 b. Fixed the display code so that the numeric argument is displayed as it's
2470 c. Fixed the numeric argument reading code so that `M-- command' is
2471 equivalent to `M--1 command', as the prompt implies.
2473 3. New Features in Bash
2475 a. `ulimit' now sets both hard and soft limits and reports the soft limit
2476 by default (when neither -H nor -S is specified). This is compatible
2477 with versions of sh and ksh that implement `ulimit'.
2479 b. Integer constants have been extended to base 64.
2481 4. New Features in Readline
2483 a. The `home' and `end' keys are now bound to beginning-of-line and
2484 end-of-line, respectively, if the corresponding termcap capabilities
2487 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2488 This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.0-beta3,
2489 and the previous version, bash-2.0-beta2.
2493 a. System-specific changes for: AIX 4.2, SCO 3.2v[45], HP-UX.
2495 b. When in POSIX mode, variable assignments preceding a special builtin
2496 persist in the shell environment after the builtin completes.
2498 c. Changed all calls to getwd() to getcwd(). Improved check for systems
2499 where the libc getcwd() calls popen(), since that breaks on some
2500 systems when job control is being used.
2502 d. Fixed a bug that caused seg faults when executing scripts with the
2503 execute bit set but without a leading `#!'.
2505 e. The environment passed to executed commands is never sorted.
2507 f. A bug was fixed in the code that expands ${name[@]} to the number of
2508 elements in an array variable.
2510 g. A bug was fixed in the array compound assignment code ( A=( ... ) ).
2512 h. Window size changes now correctly propagate down to readline if
2513 the shopt `checkwinsize' option is enabled.
2515 i. A fix was made in the code that expands to the length of a variable
2518 j. A fix was made to the command builtin so that it did not turn on the
2519 `no fork' flag inappropriately.
2521 k. A fix was made to make `set -n' work more reliably.
2523 l. A fix was made to the job control initialization code so that the
2524 terminal process group is set to the shell's process group if the
2525 shell changes its own process group.
2527 2. Changes to Readline
2529 a. System-specific changes for: SCO 3.2v[45].
2531 b. The behavior of the vi-mode `.' when redoing an `i' command was changed
2532 to insert the text previously inserted by the `i' command rather than
2533 simply entering insert mode.
2535 3. New features in Bash
2537 a. There is a new version of the autoload function package, in
2538 examples/functions/autoload.v2, that uses arrays and provides more
2541 b. Support for LC_COLLATE and locale-specific sorting of the results of
2542 pathname expansion if strcoll() is available.
2544 4. New Features in Readline
2546 a. Support for locale-specific sorting of completion possibilities if
2547 strcoll() is available.
2549 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2550 This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.0-beta2,
2551 and the previous version, bash-2.0-beta1.
2555 a. `pushd -' is once again equivalent to `pushd $OLDPWD'.
2557 b. OS-specific changes for: SCO 3.2v[45].
2559 c. A change was made to the fix for the recently-reported security hole
2560 when reading characters with octal value 255 to make it work better on
2561 systems with restartable system calls when not using readline.
2563 d. Some changes were made to the test suite so that it works if you
2564 configure bash with --enable-usg-echo-default.
2566 e. A fix was made to the parsing of conditional arithmetic expressions.
2568 f. Illegal arithmetic bases now cause an arithmetic evaluation error rather
2569 than being silently reset.
2571 g. Multiple arithmetic bases now cause an arithmetic evaluation error
2572 instead of being ignored.
2574 h. A fix was made to the evaluation of ${param?word} to conform to POSIX.2.
2576 i. A bug that sometimes caused array indices to be evaluated twice (which
2577 would cause errors when they contained assignment statements) was fixed.
2579 j. `ulimit' was rewritten to avoid problems with getrlimit(2) returning
2580 unsigned values and to simplify the code.
2582 k. A bug in the command-oriented-history code that caused it to sometimes
2583 put semicolons after right parens inappropriately was fixed.
2585 l. The values inserted into the prompt by the \w and \W escape sequences
2586 are now quoted to prevent further expansion.
2588 m. An interactive shell invoked as `sh' now reads and executes commands
2589 from the file named by $ENV when it starts up. If it's a login shell,
2590 it does this after reading /etc/profile and ~/.profile.
2592 n. The file named by $ENV is never read by non-interactive shells.
2594 2. Changes to Readline
2596 a. A few changes were made to hide some macros and functions that should not
2599 b. An off-by-one error that caused seg faults in the history expansion code
2602 3. New Features in Bash
2604 a. The ksh-style ((...)) arithmetic command was implemented. It is exactly
2605 identical to let "...". This is controlled by a new option to configure,
2606 `--enable-dparen-arithmetic', which is on by default.
2608 b. There is a new #define available in config.h.top: SYS_BASH_LOGOUT. If
2609 defined to a filename, bash reads and executes commands from that file
2610 when a login shell exits. It's commented out by default.
2612 c. `ulimit' has a `-l' option that reports the maximum amount of data that
2613 may be locked into memory on 4.4BSD-based systems.
2615 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2616 This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.0-beta1,
2617 and the previous version, bash-2.0-alpha4.
2621 a. A bug that sometimes caused traps to be ignored on signals the
2622 shell treats specially was fixed.
2624 b. The internationalization code was changed to track the values of
2625 LC_* variables and call setlocale() as appropriate. The TEXTDOMAIN
2626 and TEXTDOMAINDIR variables are also tracked; changes cause calls
2627 to textdomain() and bindtextdomain(), if available.
2629 c. A bug was fixed that sometimes caused double-quoted strings to be
2632 d. Changes were made so that the siglist code compiles correctly on
2635 e. Added `:' to the set of characters that cause word breaks for the
2636 completion code so that pathnames in assignments to $PATH can be
2639 f. The `select' command was fixed to print $PS3 to stderr.
2641 g. Fixed an error in the manual page section describing the effect that
2642 setting and unsetting GLOBIGNORE has on the setting of the `dotglob'
2645 h. The time conversion code now uses CLK_TCK rather than CLOCKS_PER_SEC
2646 on systems without gettimeofday() and resources.
2648 i. The getopt static variables are now initialized each time a subshell
2649 is started, so subshells using `getopts' work right.
2651 j. A sign-extension bug that caused a possible security hole was fixed.
2653 k. The parser now reads characters between backquotes within a double-
2654 quoted string as a single word, so double quotes in the backquoted
2655 string don't terminate the enclosing double-quoted string.
2657 l. A bug that caused `^O' to work incorrectly when typed as the first
2658 thing to an interactive shell was fixed.
2660 m. A rarely-exercised off-by-one error in the code that quotes variable
2663 n. Some memory and file descriptor leaks encountered when running a
2664 shell script that is executable but does not have a leading `#!'
2667 2. Changes to Readline
2669 a. A bug that sometimes caused incorrect results when trying to read
2670 typeahead on systems without FIONREAD was fixed.
2672 3. New Features in Bash
2674 a. The command timing code now uses the value of the TIMEFORMAT variable
2675 to format and display timing statistics.
2677 b. The `time' reserved word now accepts a `-p' option to force the
2678 POSIX.2 output format.
2680 c. There are a couple of new and updated scripts to convert csh startup
2681 files to bash format.
2683 d. There is a new builtin array variable: BASH_VERSINFO. The various
2684 members hold the parts of the version information in BASH_VERSION,
2685 plus the value of MACHTYPE.
2687 4. New Features in Readline
2689 a. Setting LANG to `en_US.ISO8859-1' now causes readline to enter
2692 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2693 This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.0-alpha4,
2694 and the previous version, bash-2.0-alpha3.
2698 a. There is better detection of rsh connections on Solaris 2.
2700 b. Assignments to read-only variables preceding a command name are now
2701 variable assignment errors. Variable assignment errors cause
2702 non-interactive shells running in posix mode to exit.
2704 c. The word tokenizer was rewritten to handle nested quotes and pairs
2705 ('', "", ``, ${...}, $(...), $[...], $'...', $"...", <(...), >(...))
2706 correctly. Some of the parameter expansion code was updated as a
2709 d. A fix was made to `test' when given three arguments so that a binary
2710 operator is checked for first, before checking that the first argument
2713 e. 2''>/dev/null is no longer equivalent to 2>/dev/null.
2715 f. Parser error messages were regularized, and in most cases the name of
2716 the shell script being read by a non-interactive shell is not printed
2719 g. A fix was made to the completion code so that it no longer removes the
2720 text the user typed in some cases.
2722 h. The special glibc `getopt' environment variable is no longer put into
2723 the environment on machines with small values of ARG_MAX.
2725 i. The expansion of ${...} now follows the POSIX.2 rules for finding the
2728 j. The shell no longer displays spurious status messages for background
2729 jobs in shell scripts that complete successfully when the script is
2730 run from a terminal.
2732 k. `shopt -o' now correctly updates $SHELLOPTS.
2734 l. A bug that caused the $PATH searching code to return a non-executable
2735 file even when an executable file with the same name appeared later in
2738 m. The shell now does tilde expansions on unquoted `:~' in assignment
2739 statements when not in posix mode.
2741 n. Variable assignment errors when a command consists only of assignments
2742 now cause non-interactive shells to exit when in posix mode.
2744 o. If the variable in a `for' or `select' command is read-only, or not a
2745 legal shell identifier, a variable assignment error occurs.
2747 p. `test' now handles `-a' and `-o' as binary operators when three arguments
2748 are supplied, and correctly parses `( word )' as equivalent to `word'.
2750 q. `test' was fixed so that file names of the form /dev/fd/NN mean the same
2751 thing on all systems, even Linux.
2753 r. Fixed a bug in the globbing code that caused patterns with multiple
2754 consecutive `*'s to not be matched correctly.
2756 s. Fixed a bug that caused $PS2 to not be printed when an interactive shell
2757 not using readline is reading a here document.
2759 t. Fixed a bug that caused history expansion to be performed inappropriately
2760 when a single-quoted string spanned more than one line.
2762 u. `getopts' now checks that the variable name passed by the user as the
2763 second argument is a legal shell identifier and that the variable is
2766 v. Fixed `getopts' to obey POSIX.2 rules for setting $OPTIND when it
2767 encounters an error.
2769 w. Fixed `set' to display variable values in a form that can be re-read.
2771 x. Fixed a bug in the code that keeps track of whether or not local variables
2772 have been declared at the current level of function nesting.
2774 y. Non-interactive shells in posix mode now exit if the name in a function
2775 declaration is not a legal identifier.
2777 z. The job control code now ignores stopped children when the shell is not
2780 aa. The `cd' builtin no longer attempts spelling correction on the directory
2781 name if the shell is not interactive, regardless of the setting of the
2784 bb. Some OS-specific changes were made for SCO 3.2v[45] and AIX 4.2.
2786 cc. `time' now prints its output to stderr, as POSIX.2 specifies.
2788 2. Fixes to Readline
2790 a. After printing possible completions, all lines of a multi-line prompt
2793 b. Some changes were made to the terminal handling code in rltty.c to
2794 work around AIX 4.2 bugs.
2796 3. New Features in Bash
2798 a. There is a new loadable builtin: sprintf, with calling syntax
2799 sprintf var format [args]
2800 This provides an easy way to simulate ksh left- and right-justified
2803 b. The expansions of \h and \H in prompt strings were swapped. \h now
2804 expands to the hostname up to the first `.', as in bash-1.14.
2806 4. New Features in Readline
2808 a. The bash-1.14 behavior when ^M is typed while doing an incremental
2809 search was restored. ^J may now be used to terminate the search without
2812 b. There is a new bindable variable: disable-completion. This inhibits
2813 word completion and causes the completion character to be inserted as
2814 if it had been bound to self-insert.
2816 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2817 This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.0-alpha3,
2818 and the previous version, bash-2.0-alpha2.
2820 There is now a file `COMPAT' included in the distribution that lists the
2821 user-visible incompatibilities between 1.14 and 2.0.
2825 a. Some work was done so that word splitting of the rhs of assignment
2826 statements conforms more closely to historical practice.
2828 b. A couple of errant memory frees were fixed.
2830 c. A fix was made to the test builtin so it recognizes `<' and `>' as
2833 d. The GNU malloc in lib/malloc/malloc.c now scrambles memory as it's
2834 allocated and freed. This is to catch callers that refer to freed
2835 memory or assume something about newly-allocated memory.
2837 e. Fixed a problem with conversion to 12-hour time in the prompt
2840 f. Fixed a problem with configure's argument parsing order. Now you can
2841 correctly turn on specific options after using --enable-minimal-config.
2843 g. The configure script now automatically disables the use of GNU malloc
2844 on systems where it's appropriate (better than having people read the
2845 NOTES file and do it manually).
2847 h. There are new prompt expansions (\v and \V) to insert version information
2848 into the prompt strings.
2850 i. The default prompt string now includes the version number.
2852 j. Most of the builtins that take no options were changed to use the
2853 internal getopt so they can produce proper error messages for -?
2854 and incorrect options.
2856 k. Some system-specific changes were made for SVR4.2 and Solaris 2.5.
2858 l. Bash now uses PATH_MAX instead of MAXPATHLEN and NAME_MAX instead of
2861 m. A couple of problems caused by uninitialized variables were fixed.
2863 n. There are a number of new loadable builtin examples: logname, basename,
2864 dirname, tty, pathchk, tee, head, and rmdir. All of these conform to
2867 o. Bash now notices changes in TZ and calls tzset() if present, so
2868 changing TZ will alter the time printed by prompt expansions.
2870 p. The source was reorganized a bit so I don't have to wait so long for
2871 some files to compile, and to facilitate the creation of a `shell
2872 library' at some future point.
2874 q. Bash no longer turns off job control if called as `sh', since the
2875 POSIX.2 spec includes job control as a standard feature.
2877 r. `bash -o posix' now works as intended.
2879 s. Fixed a problem with the completion code: when completing a filename
2880 that contained globbing characters, if show-all-if-ambiguous was set,
2881 the completion code would remove the user's text.
2883 t. Fixed ulimit so that (hopefully) the full range of limits is available
2886 u. A new `shopt' option (`hostcomplete') enables and disables hostname
2889 v. The shell no longer attempts to save the history on an abort(),
2890 which is usually called by programming_error().
2892 w. The `-s' option to `fc' was changed to echo the command to be executed
2893 to stderr instead of stdout.
2895 x. If the editor invoked by `fc -e' exits with a non-zero status, no
2896 commands are executed.
2898 y. Fixed a bug that made the shopt `histverify' option work incorrectly.
2900 z. There is a new variable `MACHTYPE' whose value is the GNU-style
2901 `cpu-company-system' system description as set by configure. (The
2902 values of MACHTYPE and HOSTTYPE should really be swapped.)
2904 aa. The `ulimit' builtin now allows the maximum virtual memory size to be
2905 set via setrlimit(2) if RLIMIT_VMEM is defined.
2907 bb. `bash -nc 'command'' no longer runs `command'.
2909 2. Changes to Readline
2911 a. Fixed a typo in the code that checked for FIONREAD in input.c.
2913 b. Fixed a bug in the code that outputs keybindings, so things like C-\
2914 are quoted properly.
2916 c. Fixed a bug in the inputrc file parsing code to handle the problems
2917 caused by inputrc files created from the output of `bind -p' in
2918 previous versions of bash. The problem was due to the bug fixed
2921 d. Readline no longer turns off the terminal's meta key, and turns it on
2922 once the first time it's called.
2924 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2925 This file documents the changes between this version, bash-2.0-alpha2,
2926 and the previous version, bash-2.0-alpha.
2930 a. The shell no longer thinks directories are executable.
2932 b. `disown' has a new option, `h', which inhibits the resending of SIGHUP
2933 but does not remove the job from the jobs table.
2935 c. The varargs functions in error.c now use ANSI-C `stdarg' if available.
2937 d. The build process now treats the `build version' in .build as local to
2938 the build directory, so different versions built from the same source
2939 tree have different `build versions'.
2941 e. Some problems with the grammar have been fixed. (It used `list' in a few
2942 productions where `compound_list' was needed. A `list' must be terminated
2943 with a newline or semicolon; a `compound_list' need not be.)
2945 f. A fix was made to keep `wait' from hanging when waiting for all background
2948 g. `bash --help' now writes its output to stdout, like the GNU Coding Standards
2949 specify, and includes the machine type (the value of MACHTYPE).
2951 h. `bash --version' now prints more information and exits successfully, like
2952 the GNU Coding Standards specify.
2954 i. The output of `time' and `times' now prints fractional seconds with three
2955 places after the decimal point.
2957 j. A bug that caused process substitutions to screw up the pipeline printed
2958 by `jobs' was fixed.
2960 k. Fixes were made to the code that implements $'...' and $"..." so they
2963 l. The process substitution code now opens named pipes for reading with
2964 O_NONBLOCK to avoid hanging.
2966 m. Fixes were made to the trap code so the shell cleans up correctly if the
2967 trap command contains a `return' and we're executing a function or
2968 sourcing a script with `.'.
2970 n. Fixes to doc/Makefile.in so that it doesn't try to remake all of the
2971 documentation (ps, dvi, etc.) on a `make install'.
2973 o. Fixed an auto-increment error that caused bash -c args to sometimes dump
2976 p. Fixed a bug that caused $HISTIGNORE to fail when the history line
2977 contained globbing characters.
2979 2. Changes to Readline
2981 a. There is a new string variable, rl_library_version, available for use by
2982 applications. The current value is "2.1".
2984 b. A bug encountered when expand-tilde was enabled and file completion was
2985 attempted on a word beginning with `~/' was fixed.
2987 c. A slight change was made to the incremental search termination behavior.
2988 ESC still terminates the search, but if input is pending or arrives
2989 within 0.1 seconds (on systems with select(2)), it is used as a prefix
2990 character. This is intented to allow users to terminate searches with
2991 the arrow keys and get the behavior they expect.