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# 267654 19-Jun-2014 gjb

Copy stable/9 to releng/9.3 as part of the 9.3-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

# 264629 17-Apr-2014 jilles

MFC r263777: sh: Fix possible memory leaks and double frees with unexpected
SIGINT.


# 264423 13-Apr-2014 jilles

MFC r238468: sh: Expand assignment-like words specially for
export/readonly/local.

Examples:
export x=~
now expands the tilde
local y=$1
is now safe, even if $1 contains IFS characters or metacharacters.

For a word to "look like an assignment", it must start with a name followed
by an equals sign, none of which may be quoted.

The special treatment applies when the first word (potentially after
"command") is "export", "readonly" or "local". There may be quoting
characters but no expansions. If "local" is overridden with a function there
is no special treatment ("export" and "readonly" cannot be overridden with a
function).

If things like
local arr=(1 2 3)
are ever allowed in the future, they cannot call a "local" function. This
would either be a run-time error or it would call the builtin.

This matches Austin Group bug #351, planned for the next issue of POSIX.1.

As for the MFC, it is easy to depend on this feature inadvertently, and
adding this fixes a regression from stable/8 that may be apparent in things
like
local x=${y+a @}.

PR: bin/166771
Relnotes: yes


# 231790 15-Feb-2012 jilles

MFC r229220: sh: Make various functions static.


# 225736 22-Sep-2011 kensmith

Copy head to stable/9 as part of 9.0-RELEASE release cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)


# 218324 05-Feb-2011 jilles

sh: Remove clearcmdentry()'s now unused argument.


# 218323 05-Feb-2011 jilles

sh: Forget all cached command locations on any PATH change.

POSIX requires this and it is simpler than the previous code that remembered
command locations when appending directories to PATH.

In particular,
PATH=$PATH
is no longer a no-op but discards all cached command locations.


# 218320 05-Feb-2011 jilles

sh: Do not try to execute binary files as scripts.

If execve() returns an [ENOEXEC] error, check if the file is binary before
trying to execute it using sh. A file is considered binary if at least one
of the first 256 bytes is '\0'.

In particular, trying to execute ELF binaries for the wrong architecture now
fails with an "Exec format error" message instead of syntax errors and
potentially strange results.


# 218306 04-Feb-2011 jilles

sh: Remove special code for shell scripts without magic number.

These are called "shell procedures" in the source.

If execve() failed with [ENOEXEC], the shell would reinitialize itself
and execute the program as a script. This requires a fair amount of code
which is not frequently used (most scripts have a #! magic number).
Therefore just execute a new instance of sh (_PATH_BSHELL) to run the
script.


# 218242 03-Feb-2011 jilles

sh: Return only 126 or 127 for execve() failures.

Do not return 2 for errors other than [EACCES] or [ENOENT].


# 217206 09-Jan-2011 jilles

sh: Remove special %builtin PATH entry.
All builtins are now always found before a PATH search.

Most ash derivatives have an undocumented feature where the presence of an
entry "%builtin" in $PATH will cause builtins to be checked at that point of
the PATH search, rather than before looking at any directories as documented
in the man page (very old versions do document this feature).

I am removing this feature from sh, as it complicates the code, may violate
expectations (for example, /usr/bin/alias is very close to a forkbomb with
PATH=/usr/bin:%builtin, only /usr/bin/builtin not being another link saves
it) and appears to be unused (all the %builtin google code search finds is
in some sort of ash source code).

Note that aliases and functions took and take precedence above builtins.
Because aliases work on a lexical level they can only ever be overridden on
a lexical level (quoting or preceding 'builtin' or 'command'). Allowing
override of functions via PATH does not really fit in the model of sh and it
would work differently from %builtin if implemented.

Note: POSIX says special builtins are found before functions. We comply to
this because we do not allow functions with the same name as a special
builtin.

Silence from: freebsd-hackers@ (message sent 20101225)
Discussed with: dougb


# 216706 26-Dec-2010 jilles

sh: Allow arbitrary large numbers in CHECKSTRSPACE.
Reduce "stack string" API somewhat and simplify code.
Add a check for integer overflow of the "stack string" length (probably
incomplete).


# 213811 13-Oct-2010 obrien

In the spirit of r90111, depend on c89 and remove the "STATIC" macro
and its usage.


# 213760 13-Oct-2010 obrien

Consistently use "STATIC" for all functions in order to be able to set
breakpoints with in a debugger. And use naked "static" for variables.

Noticed by: bde


# 204800 06-Mar-2010 jilles

sh: Improve the command builtin:
* avoid unnecessary fork
* allow executing builtins via command
* executing a special builtin via command removes its special properties

Obtained from: NetBSD (parts)


# 201366 01-Jan-2010 jilles

sh: Fix some bugs with backquoted builtins:
- correctly handle error output in $(builtin 2>&1), clarify out1/out2 vs
output/errout in the code
- treat all builtins as regular builtins so errors do not abort the shell
and variable assignments do not persist
- respect the caller's INTOFF

Some bugs still exist:
- expansion errors may still abort the shell
- some side effects of expansions and builtins persist


# 201344 31-Dec-2009 jilles

sh: Use PATH= assignment in type.

Example:
PATH=/var/empty; PATH=/bin type ls


# 201343 31-Dec-2009 jilles

sh: Allow command -pv and command -pV (lookup using _PATH_STDPATH).


# 201053 27-Dec-2009 jilles

sh: Various warning fixes (from WARNS=6 NO_WERROR=1):
- const
- initializations to silence -Wuninitialized (it was safe anyway)
- remove nested extern declarations
- rename "index" locals to "idx"


# 200956 24-Dec-2009 jilles

sh: Constify various strings.

Most of this is adding const keywords, but setvar() in var.c had to be
changed somewhat more.


# 197820 06-Oct-2009 jilles

sh: Send the "xyz: not found" message to redirected fd 2.
This also fixes that trying to execute a non-regular file with a command
name without '/' returns 127 instead of 126.
The fix is rather simplistic: treat CMDUNKNOWN as if the command were found
as an external program. The resulting fork is a bit wasteful but executing
unknown commands should not be very frequent.

PR: bin/137659


# 196634 28-Aug-2009 jilles

sh: Fix crash with empty functions (f() { }) introduced in r196483

Empty pairs of braces are represented by a NULL node pointer, just like
empty lines at the top level.

Support for empty pairs of braces may be removed later. They make the code
more complex, have inconsistent behaviour (may or may not change $?), are
not specified by POSIX and are not allowed by some other shells like bash,
dash and ksh93.

Reported by: kan


# 196483 23-Aug-2009 jilles

sh: Fix crash when undefining or redefining a currently executing function.

Add a reference count to function definitions.
Memory may leak if multiple SIGINTs arrive in interactive mode,
this will be fixed later by changing SIGINT handling.

PR: bin/137640


# 194922 24-Jun-2009 jilles

Designate special builtins as such in command -V and type.
Also document various properties of special builtins that we implement.

Approved by: ed (mentor) (implicit)


# 193223 01-Jun-2009 rse

align coding style with style(9) to avoid misunderstandings


# 185401 28-Nov-2008 stefanf

Report error messages of the builtins 'type' and 'command -V' to stderr instead
of stdout.

Noticed by: Zajcev Evgeny


# 166101 18-Jan-2007 stefanf

Use eaccess() instead of access() for the type builtin, like we do for the
test builtin.

Submitted by: Martin Kammerhofer


# 165930 10-Jan-2007 stefanf

Return an error status (127) from the builtins 'type' and 'command' (with
either -v or -V) if a file with a slash in the name doesn't exist (if there is
no slash we already did that).

Additionally, suppress the error message for command -v for files with a slash.

PR: 107674
Submitted by: Martin Kammerhofer


# 157601 09-Apr-2006 stefanf

Implement some of the differences between special built-ins and other builtins
demanded by POSIX.
- A redirection error is only fatal (meaning the execution of a shell script is
terminated) for special built-ins. Previously it was fatal for all shell
builtins, causing problems like the one reported in PR 88845.
- Variable assignments remain in effect for special built-ins.
- Option or operand errors are only fatal for special built-ins.
This change also makes errors from 'fc' non-fatal (I could not find any reasons
for this behaviour).

Somewhat independently from the above down-grade the error handling in the
shift built-in if the operand is bigger than $# from an error() call (which is
now fatal) to a return 1. I'm not sure if this should be considered a POSIX
"operand error", however this change is needed for now as we trigger that error
while building libncurses. Comparing with other shells, zsh does the same as
our sh before this change (write a diagnostic, return 1), bash behaves as our
sh after this commit (no diagnostic, return 1) and ksh93 and NetBSD's sh treat
it as a fatal error.


# 151854 29-Oct-2005 stefanf

Forced commit to note the patch for the previous commit was

Submitted by: rodrigc


# 151810 28-Oct-2005 stefanf

Add the POSIX options -v and -V to the 'command' builtin. Both describe the
type of their argument, if it is a shell function, an alias, a builtin, etc.
-V is more verbose than -v.

PR: 77259, 84539


# 149016 13-Aug-2005 stefanf

Use prototypes in the MKINIT lines collected by mkinit.


# 135856 27-Sep-2004 des

Attempting to unset an undefined variable or function should not be
considered an error according to the Open Group Base Specification.

PR: standards/45738
Submitted by: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@web.de>
MFC after: 3 days


# 127958 06-Apr-2004 markm

Remove clause 3 from the UCB licenses.

OK'ed by: imp, core


# 117261 05-Jul-2003 dds

Changes following CScout analysis:

- Removed dead declarations
- Made objects that should have been declared as static, static.

The changes use STATIC instead of static, following the existing
convention in the rest of the code.

Approved by: schweikh (mentor)
MFC after: 2 weeks


# 104283 01-Oct-2002 tjr

Restore "not found" error message when searching for (or executing)
a program fails because the file or a path component does not exist.

Suggested by: bde


# 104132 29-Sep-2002 tjr

Convert the remaining callers of errmsg() to use strerror(), and remove
errmsg() and its table of error messages.


# 100351 19-Jul-2002 tjr

Remove broken and incomplete support for old releases of System V,
don't support system that implement getcwd(3) with a pipe to /bin/pwd.


# 99110 30-Jun-2002 obrien

Consistently use FBSDID


# 98157 13-Jun-2002 tjr

Don't list shell builtins when the hash command is used (SUSv3)


# 94775 15-Apr-2002 greid

Stop a null pointer dereference in the builtin hash function.

PR: 36141
Approved by: cracauer
MFC after: 1 week


# 90111 02-Feb-2002 imp

o __P has been reoved
o Old-style K&R declarations have been converted to new C89 style
o register has been removed
o prototype for main() has been removed (gcc3 makes it an error)
o int main(int argc, char *argv[]) is the preferred main definition.
o Attempt to not break style(9) conformance for declarations more than
they already are.
o Change
int
foo() {
...
to
int
foo(void)
{
...


# 64704 16-Aug-2000 cracauer

Fix type builtin for absolute paths and relative paths with directory
names in them.

Also use a colon in the answer of `type` everytime the questioned item
is not usable.

PR: bin/20567


# 54884 20-Dec-1999 cracauer

Fix command hash handling on
PATH=... command

Noted by and fix works for Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>


# 50471 27-Aug-1999 peter

$Id$ -> $FreeBSD$


# 36150 18-May-1998 charnier

Add rcsid. Spelling.


# 25905 18-May-1997 steve

Use the __unused attribute where warranted.


# 25223 28-Apr-1997 steve

Add a type builtin and nuke register keyword usage.

Obtained from: NetBSD


# 22988 22-Feb-1997 peter

Revert $FreeBSD$ to $Id$


# 21673 14-Jan-1997 jkh

Make the long-awaited change from $Id$ to $FreeBSD$

This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.

Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.


# 20425 14-Dec-1996 steve

Merge in NetBSD mods and -Wall cleaning.

Obtained from: NetBSD, me


# 18018 03-Sep-1996 peter

Fix for PR#1287. This makes sh behave sensibly in case statements in the
face of aliases. Note, bash doesn't do aliases while running scripts, but
"real" ksh does..

Also:
Reduce redundant .Nm macros in (unused) bltin/echo.1
nuke error2, it's hardly used.
More -Wall cleanups
dont do certain history operations if NO_HISTORY defined
handle quad_t's from resource limits

Submitted by: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net> (minor tweaks by me)


# 17987 01-Sep-1996 peter

Merge of 4.4-Lite2 sh source, plus some gcc -Wall cleaning. This is a
merge of parallel duplicate work by Steve Price and myself. :-]

There are some changes to the build that are my fault... mkinit.c was
trying (poorly) to duplicate some of the work that make(1) is designed to
do. The Makefile hackery is my fault too, the depend list was incomplete
because of some explicit OBJS+= entries, so mkdep wasn't picking up their
source file #includes.

This closes a pile of /bin/sh PR's, but not all of them..

Submitted by: Steve Price <steve@bonsai.hiwaay.net>, peter


# 8855 29-May-1995 rgrimes

Remove trailing whitespace.

Reviewed by: phk


# 3044 24-Sep-1994 dg

Added $Id$


# 2111 18-Aug-1994 dg

Got rid of stupid warning message.


# 1557 26-May-1994 rgrimes

This commit was generated by cvs2svn to compensate for changes in r1556,
which included commits to RCS files with non-trunk default branches.


# 1556 26-May-1994 rgrimes

BSD 4.4 Lite bin Sources