Replacing ;; with the new control operator ;& will cause the next list to be
executed as well without checking its pattern, continuing until a list ends
with ;; or until the end of the case statement. This is like omitting
"break" in a C "switch" statement.
The sequence ;& was formerly invalid.
This feature is proposed for the next POSIX issue in Austin Group issue
#449.
CDPATH should be ignored not only for pathnames starting with '/' but also
for pathnames whose first component is '.' or '..'.
The man page already describes this behaviour.
This reflects failure to determine the pathname of the new directory in the
exit status (1). Normally, cd returns successfully if it did chdir() and the
call was successful.
In POSIX, -e only has meaning with -P; because our -L is not entirely
compliant and may fall back to -P mode, -e has some effect with -L as well.
?, [...] patterns match codepoints instead of bytes. They do not match
invalid sequences. [...] patterns must not contain invalid sequences
otherwise they will not match anything. This is so that ${var#?} removes the
first codepoint, not the first byte, without putting UTF-8 knowledge into
the ${var#pattern} code. However, * continues to match any string and an
invalid sequence matches an identical invalid sequence. (This differs from
fnmatch(3).)
Preserving $? may cause problems particularly if set -e is in effect.
It may be useful to preserve the old value of $? in the dot script but this
must not be implemented in such a way that it would break this test.
This is useful so that it is easier to exit on a signal than to reset the
trap to default and resend the signal. It matches ksh93. POSIX says that
'exit' without args from a trap action uses the exit status from the last
command before the trap, which is different from 'exit $?' and matches this
if the previous command is assumed to have exited on the signal.
If the signal is SIGSTOP, SIGTSTP, SIGTTIN or SIGTTOU, or if the default
action for the signal is to ignore it, a normal _exit(2) is done with exit
status 128+signal_number.
* Make 'trap --' do the same as 'trap' instead of nothing.
* Make '--' stop option processing (note that '-' action is not an option).
Side effect: The error message for an unknown option is different.
It should use the original exit status, just like falling off the
end of the trap handler.
Outside an EXIT trap, 'exit' is still equivalent to 'exit $?'.
The #define for warnx now behaves much like the libc function (except that
it uses sh command name and output).
Also, it now uses C99 __VA_ARGS__ so there is no need for three different
macros for 0, 1 or 2 parameters.
and why. The first case is correct usage which has but one correct output.
The 2nd and 3rd cases are incorrect usage in which the exact output is
not standardized and various shells give various allowable output.
POSIX does not allow constructs like:
if cmd; then fi
{ }
Add a colon dummy command, except in a test that verifies that such empty
lists do not cause crashes when used as a function definition.
In our implementation and most others, a break or continue in a dot script
can break or continue a loop outside the dot script. This should cause all
further commands in the dot script to be skipped. However, cmdloop() did not
know about this and continued to parse and execute commands from the dot
script.
As described in the man page, a return in a dot script in a function returns
from the function, not only from the dot script. There was a similar issue
as with break and continue. In various other shells, the return appears to
return from the dot script, but POSIX seems not very clear about this.
This makes a difference if there is a command substitution.
To make this work, evalstring() has been changed to set exitstatus to 0 if
no command was executed (the string contained only whitespace).
Example:
eval $(false); echo $?
should print 0.
Although "--" historically has not been required to be recognized for
certain special builtins that do not take options in POSIX, some other
implementations recognize options for them, requiring scripts to use "--" or
avoid operands starting with "-".
Operands starting with "-" can be avoided with eval by prepending a space,
and cannot occur with break, continue, exit, return and shift as they only
take numbers, nor with times as it does not take operands. With . and exec,
avoiding "-" is not so easy as it may require reimplementing the PATH
search; therefore the current proposal for POSIX is to require recognition
of "--" for them.
We continue to accept other strings starting with "-" as operands to . and
exec, and also "--" if it is alone to . (which would otherwise be invalid
anyway).
