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Date:      Thu, 16 Mar 1995 12:34:19 -0500
From:      Chet Ramey <chet@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu>
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Subject:   Bash-1.14.4 beta test version now available
Message-ID:  <9503161734.AA17130.SM@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu>

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The first beta test version of bash-1.14.4 is now available for anonymous
FTP with URL

ftp://slc2.ins.cwru.edu/pub/hidden/bash-1.14.4.tar.gz

Please try it out and send me any problems.  This will probably be the
final 1.14 release, so I would like it to be tested as thoroughly as
possible.

One caveat: if you use this version of bash and pipelines seem to hang
when executing, please try adding -DWAITPID_BROKEN to SYSDEP_CFLAGS in
the right machine description before reporting a bug.  If you do this
and it fixes the problem, please let me know so I can add it for the
FCS release.

A list of bug fixes present in this version is included.  This file is
in the distribution as NEWS.

As always, thanks for all your help.

Chet
----------
This file documents the bugs fixed between this release, bash-1.14.4,
and the last public bash release, 1.14.3.

1.  Bugs fixed in Bash

a.  The command history is now saved whenever an interactive shell exits,
    even if on hangup or error.

b.  Newline is no longer escaped with a backslash by the filename completion
    quoting functions.

c.  When building, `ranlib' is now searched for in the user's search path
    before attempting to find it in the file system.

d.  `getopts' now saves state across calls to fix core dumps when parsing
    arguments other than the positional parameters.

e.  The builtin getopt() has been greatly simplified, renamed sh_getopt()
    and is now compiled in on all machines.

f.  The default PATH has been changed to remove the leading `.'.

g.  The default MAILPATH needed to be changed for a few 4.4BSD-based systems.

h.  User-changable CFLAGS can now modify all of the build parameters.

i.  Fixed a typo that caused AFS to incorrectly report some files as
    executable.

j.  Fixed a bug in pathname canonicalization that could cause core dumps.

k.  Changes to the job control code to work around SCO kernel bugs
    (waitpid()).

l.  Fixed compilation problems on machines that defined `const' in a system
    header file without defining `inline'.

m.  New/changed machine descriptions:  BSD/OS 2.0, Irix 6.x, Amdahl UTS, SCO.

n.  Fixes to make empty PS1 and PS2 work correctly.

o.  The \[ and \] prompt escapes are not recognized unless readline has been
    compiled into the shell.

p.  Fixed bad variable initialization that could cause core dumps on systems
    without varargs.

q.  Fixed bug that caused `bash -c exit' to return incorrect exit status.

r.  Fixed but that did not allow `PS4=' to suppress the execution trace
    display of `+'.

s.  Fixed bug so that quoting inside "${param[:][-?=+]word}" is honored.

t.  References without braces to unset positional parameters (`$5') now
    cause errors if set -u is on.

u.  Fixed bug so that the rhs of assignment statements is no longer word
    split.

v.  Changed calls to signal() to set_signal_handler() for Posix.1 semantics
    where available.

w.  Fixed bug that caused the exit trap to be passed to (...) subshells.

x.  $BASH is no longer auto-exported.

y.  Instances of globbing characters in completed filenames (`*', `?', `[')
    now cause the filename to be quoted.

z.  Fixed bug that caused an infinite loop if $PROMPT_COMMAND contained a
    syntax error.

2.  Bugs fixed in Readline

a.  When listing filename completions, unprintable characters in filenames
    are now translated to ASCII

b.  Fixes to make empty prompt strings work correctly, instead of reusing
    the previously-displayed prompt.

c.  Use _SVR4_DISABLE if it is available and _POSIX_VDISABLE is not defined
    to turn off meanings of special characters like ^C

d.  Fixed up some functions called with incorrect arguments.

e.  Fixed bug with `:%' history modifier so that it now inserts the
    string matched by the most recent !?string? search, not the string
    searched for.


-- 
``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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