Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 11:22:33 -0400 From: Chet Ramey <chet@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu> To: arnold@skeeve.atl.ga.us, composer@beyond.dreams.org, friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu, joshua5@cs.bu.edu, dob@inel.gov, mjo@msen.com, jason@servio.slc.com, timbo@ig.co.uk, trost@cse.ogi.edu, zoo@armadillo.com, lubkin@cs.rochester.edu, james@bigtex.cactus.org, Greg.Onufer@Eng.Sun.COM, kre@munnari.oz.au, tmwalden@saturn.sys.acc.com, torvalds@cc.helsinki.fi, i.watson@lilly.com, glenn@mathcs.emory.edu, penningt@reason.psc.edu, devet@adv.iaehv.nl, grog@lemis.de, djm@eng.umd.edu, wieting@tweety.llnl.gov, geoffc@research.att.com, de5@ornl.gov, kayvan@satyr.sylvan.com, smd@uunet.ca, asjl@connect.com.au, mark@comp.vuw.ac.nz, david@cs.dal.ca, jwe@che.utexas.edu, quinlan@best.com, Karl.Kleinpaste@GODIVA.NECTAR.CS.CMU.EDU, bammi@cadence.com, sanders@bsdi.com, tramey@boi.hp.com, roland@gnu.ai.mit.edu, bfox@gnu.ai.mit.edu, torek@bsdi.com, marc@redhat.com Cc: chet@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu, sandro@elf.com, drich@sgi.com, carson@cs.columbia.edu, Doug.Becker@Eng.Sun.COM, deven@asylum.sf.ca.us, remy@ccs.neu.edu, freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, dtm@best.com, kjetilho@ifi.uio.no, cam@iinet.com.au, wbader@EECS.Lehigh.Edu, hniksic@neumijko.srce.hr, mwette@csi.jpl.nasa.gov, jsh@canary.com, gjb@gba.oz.au, andreas@MPA-Garching.MPG.DE, pgf@foxharp.boston.ma.us, peterc@suite.sw.oz.au, brown@eff.org, bothner@cygnus.com, tudor@cs.pub.ro, fox@cac.washington.edu, hag@gnu.ai.mit.edu, root@candle.pha.pa.us, neal@ctd.comsat.com, grw@tamu.edu, schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de, haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de, gildea@x.org, rfg@monkeys.com, haahr@netcom.com, eggert@twinsun.com, dwm@netans.com, mooney@golem.phys.ndsu.NoDak.edu, strombrg@hydra.acs.uci.edu Subject: Bash-2.0 alpha-2 release available Message-ID: <9604191522.AA08251.SM@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu>
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The second alpha release of bash-2.0 is now available with the URL ftp://slc2.ins.cwru.edu/pub/hidden/bash-2.0-alpha2.tar.gz This tar file does not include the formatted documentation (postscript, dvi, html, and nroffed versions of the manual pages); that may be retrieved with the URL ftp://slc2.ins.cwru.edu/pub/hidden/bash-doc-2.0-alpha2.tar.gz When unpacking the documentation, make sure to extract the tar file in the bash-2.0-alpha2 source directory. No diffs from bash-2.0-alpha are available. The distribution is still changing too much for them to be useful. All of the bugs reported with bash-2.0-alpha have been fixed. The configuration is much improved, and installation should work now. The file CHANGES lists the changes from bash-2.0-alpha. A copy is appended. `bashbug' may be used to report bugs with this version. It will send mail to chet@po.cwru.edu if the shell's `release status' is alpha or beta. As always, thanks for your help. Chet +========== CHANGES ==========+ This file documents the changes between this version, bash-2.0-alpha2, and the previous version, bash-2.0-alpha. 1. Changes to Bash a. The shell no longer thinks directories are executable. b. `disown' has a new option, `-h', which inhibits the resending of SIGHUP but does not remove the job from the jobs table. c. The varargs functions in error.c now use ANSI-C `stdarg' if available. d. The build process now treats the `build version' in .build as local to the build directory, so different versions built from the same source tree have different `build versions'. e. Some problems with the grammar have been fixed. (It used `list' in a few productions where `compound_list' was needed. A `list' must be terminated with a newline or semicolon; a `compound_list' need not be.) f. A fix was made to keep `wait' from hanging when waiting for all background jobs. g. `bash --help' now writes its output to stdout, like the GNU Coding Standards specify, and includes the machine type (the value of MACHTYPE). h. `bash --version' now prints more information and exits successfully, like the GNU Coding Standards specify. i. The output of `time' and `times' now prints fractional seconds with three places after the decimal point. j. A bug that caused process substitutions to screw up the pipeline printed by `jobs' was fixed. k. Fixes were made to the code that implements $'...' and $"..." so they work as documented. l. The process substitution code now opens named pipes for reading with O_NONBLOCK to avoid hanging. m. Fixes were made to the trap code so the shell cleans up correctly if the trap command contains a `return' and we're executing a function or sourcing a script with `.'. n. Fixes to doc/Makefile.in so that it doesn't try to remake all of the documentation (ps, dvi, etc.) on a `make install'. o. Fixed an auto-increment error that caused bash -c args to sometimes dump core. p. Fixed a bug that caused $HISTIGNORE to fail when the history line contained globbing characters. 2. Changes to Readline a. There is a new string variable, rl_library_version, available for use by applications. The current value is "2.1". b. A bug encountered when expand-tilde was enabled and file completion was attempted on a word beginning with `~/' was fixed. c. A slight change was made to the incremental search termination behavior. ESC still terminates the search, but if input is pending or arrives within 0.1 seconds (on systems with select(2)), it is used as a prefix character. This is intended to allow users to terminate searches with the arrow keys and get the behavior they expect. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu
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