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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

# 225736 22-Sep-2011 kensmith

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

Approved by: re (implicit)


# 216629 21-Dec-2010 jilles

sh: Add kill builtin.

This allows specifying a %job (which is equivalent to the corresponding
process group).

Additionally, it improves reliability of kill from sh in high-load
situations and ensures "kill" finds the correct utility regardless of PATH,
as required by POSIX (unless the undocumented %builtin mechanism is used).

Side effect: fatal errors (any error other than kill(2) failure) now return
exit status 2 instead of 1. (This is consistent with other sh builtins, but
not in NetBSD.)

Code size increases about 1K on i386.

Obtained from: NetBSD


# 215520 19-Nov-2010 jilles

sh: Add printf builtin.

This was removed in 2001 but I think it is appropriate to add it back:
* I do not want to encourage people to write fragile and non-portable echo
commands by making printf much slower than echo.
* Recent versions of Autoconf use it a lot.
* Almost no software still wants to support systems that do not have
printf(1) at all.
* In many other shells printf is already a builtin.

Side effect: printf is now always the builtin version (which behaves
identically to /usr/bin/printf) and cannot be overridden via PATH (except
via the undocumented %builtin mechanism).

Code size increases about 5K on i386. Embedded folks might want to replace
/usr/bin/printf with a hard link to /usr/bin/alias.


# 209033 11-Jun-2010 uqs

Remove Xo/Xc in It, which is not yet supported by mdocml but
can be worked around trivially in this case.


# 207817 09-May-2010 jilles

builtin(1): sh has no @ builtin command.

MFC after: 1 week


# 207196 25-Apr-2010 jilles

Make hash, type and ulimit available via execve().

These are specified by POSIX but are not special builtins, and therefore
need to be available via execve() and utilities like time, nohup, xargs.
(Note that hash was moved from the XSI option to the base in the 2008
standard.)

Like most of the POSIX "regular builtin commands", these need to be executed
in a shell environment for full functionality, although they may still be of
some use outside one.

Unlike the POSIX special and regular builtin commands, POSIX does not
require these to be found before a PATH search, although that could be an
oversight.

Like some of the utilities already provided by usr.bin/alias, these may lead
to confusing results when invoked from csh(1).


# 207168 24-Apr-2010 jilles

builtin(1): Add missing escaping for !, . and : in the table.

This caused these commands to look differently (not bold) from the other
commands in the table (bold).

MFC after: 1 week


# 207166 24-Apr-2010 jilles

builtin(1): Mention [ sh builtin.

MFC after: 1 week


# 165559 26-Dec-2006 ru

Fix markup.


# 163326 13-Oct-2006 ru

Make the SYNOPSIS section more meaningful.

PR: docs/85066
Submitted by: Gary W. Swearingen
MFC after: 3 days


# 153092 04-Dec-2005 stefanf

Add the times builtin.


# 149912 09-Sep-2005 garys

Added missing builtins; a few other clean-ups.

- The first "alias" "Yes" should be "No**".
- Made "builtin echo command" consistent with csh and sh manpages.
- In group of 3 interactive commands, 2 used .Pa instead of .Ic.
- "Name" section now has "builtin" and "built-in" for better apropos.
- Added these builtins: !, %, ., :, @, {, }, local, return

PR: docs/85065
Approved by: keramida
MFC after: 3 days


# 147739 02-Jul-2005 dannyboy

Add a missing ** to the 'command' command.

PR: 79877
Submitted by: Kazuaki Oda <ybbkaz@yahoo.co.jp>
Reviewed by: ru
Approved by: re
MFC after: 1 day


# 147397 15-Jun-2005 ru

Add missing command name.

(The error was visible on stderr.)

Approved by: re


# 142331 23-Feb-2005 trhodes

Update list of utilitys which are implemented externally, Xref info.1,
clean up some text, bump doc date.

PR: 47690
Submitted by: Gary W. Swearingen <swear@attbi.com> (original version)


# 141580 09-Feb-2005 ru

Fixed the misplaced $FreeBSD$.


# 100574 23-Jul-2002 tjr

Mention the new bind(1) sh builtin.


# 100248 17-Jul-2002 sheldonh

One external utility was ommitted in the previous delta:

alias


# 100226 17-Jul-2002 sheldonh

The following builtins are now available as external commands as well:

bg
cd
command
fc
fg
getopts
jobs
read
umask
unalias
wait


# 86693 20-Nov-2001 knu

(null commit to correct the previous log message)

Now that all the printf invocations from within the system startup
scripts *have been replaced with equivalent handmade functions*, we
can safely remove it.

Please steal the technique from src/etc/MAKEDEV when you want to use
printf(1) functionality from within the system rc scripts.


# 86692 20-Nov-2001 knu

Remove the printf builtin command from sh(1), which command is not
used so often that it's worth keeping it as a builtin.

Now that all the printf invocations from within the system startup
scripts, we can safely remove it.

Urged by: sheldonh :)

No MFC is planned so far because it may break compatibility and
violate POLA.


# 86654 20-Nov-2001 knu

Add false(1), test(1) and true(1) cross-references.

Pointed out by: sheldonh


# 86505 17-Nov-2001 knu

Make test(1) a builtin command of our sh(1) for efficiency. The
binary size increase is 3,784 bytes (about 0.6%).

I don't drop the printf builtin while I'm here because some /etc/rc.*
scripts seem to use it before mounting /usr where printf(1) resides.

Reviewed by: arch (sheldonh)
Inspired by: NetBSD, ksh
Clued by: ume (on how the printf builtin is used)


# 81285 08-Aug-2001 ru

mdoc(7) police: expand plain text xrefs.


# 79727 14-Jul-2001 schweikh

Removed whitespace at end-of-line; no content changes. I simply did
cd src/share; find man[1-9] -type f|xargs perl -pi -e 's/[ \t]+$//'

BTW, what editors are the culprits? I'm using vim and it shows
me whitespace at EOL in troff files with a thick blue block...

Reviewed by: Silence from cvs diff -b
MFC after: 7 days


# 75932 25-Apr-2001 dd

"break", "chdir", "continue", "else", and "while" are sh(1) builtins;
mark them as such.

PR: 26702


# 75049 31-Mar-2001 dd

Indicate that sh(1) has an 'if' builtin command.

PR: 26193


# 71369 22-Jan-2001 ru

Prepare for mdoc(7)NG.


# 68962 20-Nov-2000 ru

mdoc(7) police: use the new features of the Nm macro.


# 60261 09-May-2000 sheldonh

Update the builtin(1) manpage to reflect changes since the csh(1)
to tcsh(1) upgrade. The following commands were added as builtins:

bindkey
builtins
complete
echotc
filetest
hup
log
ls-F
printenv
sched
settc
setty
telltc
uncomplete
where

The printf builtin was removed.


# 60203 08-May-2000 sheldonh

Remove the bogusly inserted ``cwd'' which isn't a builtin command
to sh, csh nor tcsh.

Fix the header line of the table to use cross-references and
emphasis.


# 57714 03-Mar-2000 sheldonh

I didn't expect this to be merged to STABLE. It was, so correct the
HISTORY section.


# 57674 01-Mar-2000 sheldonh

Add missing entry for read(1) to the builtin(1) manual page and
add an MLINKS entry for it. I can't imagine how I missed this one.


# 54897 20-Dec-1999 sheldonh

Fix the availability table, which incorrectly indicated that sh(1)
does not have a builtin set command.


# 51275 14-Sep-1999 sheldonh

Correct some hard sentence breaks. Only those surrounding the previous
commit and those which cause ugly nroff output have been fixed, since
the purpose of the style guideline which they contravene is to reduce
the sizes of deltas.

Reported by: bde


# 51090 08-Sep-1999 sheldonh

Improve shell documentation:

* Consistently misspell built-in as builtin.

* Add a builtin(1) manpage and create builtin(1) MLINKS for all shell
builtin commands for which no standalone utility exists. These MLINKS
replace those that were created for csh(1).

* Add appropriate xrefs for builtin(1) to the csh(1) and sh(1) manpages,
as well as to the manpages of standalone utilities which are supported
as shell builtin commands in at least one of the shells. In such
manpages, explain that similar functionality may be provided as a
shell builtin command.

* Improve sh(1)'s description of the cd builtin command. Csh(1) already
describes it adequately. Replace the cd(1) manpage with a builtin(1)
MLINKS link.

* Clean up some mdoc problems: use Xr instead of literal "foo(n)"; use
Ic instead of Xr for shell builtin commands.

* Undo English contractions.

Reviewed by: mpp, rgrimes