1 This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.0-release,
2 and the previous version, bash-2.0-beta3.
6 a. Fix to the `getopts' builtin so that it does the right thing when a
7 required option argument is not present.
9 b. The completion code now updates the common prefix of matched names
10 after FIGNORE processing is done, since any names that were removed
11 may have changed the common prefix.
13 c. Fixed a bug that made messages in MAILPATH entries not work correctly.
15 d. Fixed a serious documentation error in the description of the new
16 ${parameter:offset[:length]} expansion.
18 e. Fixes to make parameter substring expansion ({$param:offset[:length]})
19 work when within double quotes.
21 f. Fixes to make ^A (CTLESC) survive an unquoted expansion of positional
24 g. Corrected a misspelling of `unlimited' in the output of `ulimit'.
26 h. Fixed a bug that caused executable scripts without a leading `#!' to
27 occasionally pick up the wrong set of positional parameters.
29 i. Linux systems now have a working `ulimit -v', using RLIMIT_AS.
31 j. Updated config.guess so that many more machine types are recognized.
33 k. Fixed a bug with backslash-quoted slashes in the ${param/pat[/sub]}
36 l. If the shell is named `-su', and `-c command' is supplied, read and
37 execute the login shell startup files even though the shell is not
38 interactive. This is to support the `-' option to `su'.
40 m. Fixed a bug that caused core dumps when the DEBUG trap was ignored
41 with `trap "" DEBUG' and a shell function was subsequently executed.
43 n. Fixed a bug that caused core dumps in the read builtin when IFS was
44 set to the null string and the input had leading whitespace.
46 2. Changes to Readline
48 a. Fixed a bug that caused a numeric argument of 1024 to be ignored when
51 b. Fixed the display code so that the numeric argument is displayed as it's
54 c. Fixed the numeric argument reading code so that `M-- command' is
55 equivalent to `M--1 command', as the prompt implies.
57 3. New Features in Bash
59 a. `ulimit' now sets both hard and soft limits and reports the soft limit
60 by default (when neither -H nor -S is specified). This is compatible
61 with versions of sh and ksh that implement `ulimit'.
63 b. Integer constants have been extended to base 64.
65 4. New Features in Readline
67 a. The `home' and `end' keys are now bound to beginning-of-line and
68 end-of-line, respectively, if the corresponding termcap capabilities
71 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
72 This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.0-beta3,
73 and the previous version, bash-2.0-beta2.
77 a. System-specific changes for: AIX 4.2, SCO 3.2v[45], HP-UX.
79 b. When in POSIX mode, variable assignments preceding a special builtin
80 persist in the shell environment after the builtin completes.
82 c. Changed all calls to getwd() to getcwd(). Improved check for systems
83 where the libc getcwd() calls popen(), since that breaks on some
84 systems when job control is being used.
86 d. Fixed a bug that caused seg faults when executing scripts with the
87 execute bit set but without a leading `#!'.
89 e. The environment passed to executed commands is never sorted.
91 f. A bug was fixed in the code that expands ${name[@]} to the number of
92 elements in an array variable.
94 g. A bug was fixed in the array compound assignment code ( A=( ... ) ).
96 h. Window size changes now correctly propagate down to readline if
97 the shopt `checkwinsize' option is enabled.
99 i. A fix was made in the code that expands to the length of a variable
102 j. A fix was made to the command builtin so that it did not turn on the
103 `no fork' flag inappropriately.
105 k. A fix was made to make `set -n' work more reliably.
107 l. A fix was made to the job control initialization code so that the
108 terminal process group is set to the shell's process group if the
109 shell changes its own process group.
111 2. Changes to Readline
113 a. System-specific changes for: SCO 3.2v[45].
115 b. The behavior of the vi-mode `.' when redoing an `i' command was changed
116 to insert the text previously inserted by the `i' command rather than
117 simply entering insert mode.
119 3. New features in Bash
121 a. There is a new version of the autoload function package, in
122 examples/functions/autoload.v2, that uses arrays and provides more
125 b. Support for LC_COLLATE and locale-specific sorting of the results of
126 pathname expansion if strcoll() is available.
128 4. New Features in Readline
130 a. Support for locale-specific sorting of completion possibilities if
131 strcoll() is available.
133 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
134 This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.0-beta2,
135 and the previous version, bash-2.0-beta1.
139 a. `pushd -' is once again equivalent to `pushd $OLDPWD'.
141 b. OS-specific changes for: SCO 3.2v[45].
143 c. A change was made to the fix for the recently-reported security hole
144 when reading characters with octal value 255 to make it work better on
145 systems with restartable system calls when not using readline.
147 d. Some changes were made to the test suite so that it works if you
148 configure bash with --enable-usg-echo-default.
150 e. A fix was made to the parsing of conditional arithmetic expressions.
152 f. Illegal arithmetic bases now cause an arithmetic evaluation error rather
153 than being silently reset.
155 g. Multiple arithmetic bases now cause an arithmetic evaluation error
156 instead of being ignored.
158 h. A fix was made to the evaluation of ${param?word} to conform to POSIX.2.
160 i. A bug that sometimes caused array indices to be evaluated twice (which
161 would cause errors when they contained assignment statements) was fixed.
163 j. `ulimit' was rewritten to avoid problems with getrlimit(2) returning
164 unsigned values and to simplify the code.
166 k. A bug in the command-oriented-history code that caused it to sometimes
167 put semicolons after right parens inappropriately was fixed.
169 l. The values inserted into the prompt by the \w and \W escape sequences
170 are now quoted to prevent further expansion.
172 m. An interactive shell invoked as `sh' now reads and executes commands
173 from the file named by $ENV when it starts up. If it's a login shell,
174 it does this after reading /etc/profile and ~/.profile.
176 n. The file named by $ENV is never read by non-interactive shells.
178 2. Changes to Readline
180 a. A few changes were made to hide some macros and functions that should not
183 b. An off-by-one error that caused seg faults in the history expansion code
186 3. New Features in Bash
188 a. The ksh-style ((...)) arithmetic command was implemented. It is exactly
189 identical to let "...". This is controlled by a new option to configure,
190 `--enable-dparen-arithmetic', which is on by default.
192 b. There is a new #define available in config.h.top: SYS_BASH_LOGOUT. If
193 defined to a filename, bash reads and executes commands from that file
194 when a login shell exits. It's commented out by default.
196 c. `ulimit' has a `-l' option that reports the maximum amount of data that
197 may be locked into memory on 4.4BSD-based systems.
199 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
200 This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.0-beta1,
201 and the previous version, bash-2.0-alpha4.
205 a. A bug that sometimes caused traps to be ignored on signals the
206 shell treats specially was fixed.
208 b. The internationalization code was changed to track the values of
209 LC_* variables and call setlocale() as appropriate. The TEXTDOMAIN
210 and TEXTDOMAINDIR variables are also tracked; changes cause calls
211 to textdomain() and bindtextdomain(), if available.
213 c. A bug was fixed that sometimes caused double-quoted strings to be
216 d. Changes were made so that the siglist code compiles correctly on
219 e. Added `:' to the set of characters that cause word breaks for the
220 completion code so that pathnames in assignments to $PATH can be
223 f. The `select' command was fixed to print $PS3 to stderr.
225 g. Fixed an error in the manual page section describing the effect that
226 setting and unsetting GLOBIGNORE has on the setting of the `dotglob'
229 h. The time conversion code now uses CLK_TCK rather than CLOCKS_PER_SEC
230 on systems without gettimeofday() and resources.
232 i. The getopt static variables are now initialized each time a subshell
233 is started, so subshells using `getopts' work right.
235 j. A sign-extension bug that caused a possible security hole was fixed.
237 k. The parser now reads characters between backquotes within a double-
238 quoted string as a single word, so double quotes in the backquoted
239 string don't terminate the enclosing double-quoted string.
241 l. A bug that caused `^O' to work incorrectly when typed as the first
242 thing to an interactive shell was fixed.
244 m. A rarely-exercised off-by-one error in the code that quotes variable
247 n. Some memory and file descriptor leaks encountered when running a
248 shell script that is executable but does not have a leading `#!'
251 2. Changes to Readline
253 a. A bug that sometimes caused incorrect results when trying to read
254 typeahead on systems without FIONREAD was fixed.
256 3. New Features in Bash
258 a. The command timing code now uses the value of the TIMEFORMAT variable
259 to format and display timing statistics.
261 b. The `time' reserved word now accepts a `-p' option to force the
262 POSIX.2 output format.
264 c. There are a couple of new and updated scripts to convert csh startup
265 files to bash format.
267 d. There is a new builtin array variable: BASH_VERSINFO. The various
268 members hold the parts of the version information in BASH_VERSION,
269 plus the value of MACHTYPE.
271 4. New Features in Readline
273 a. Setting LANG to `en_US.ISO8859-1' now causes readline to enter
276 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
277 This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.0-alpha4,
278 and the previous version, bash-2.0-alpha3.
282 a. There is better detection of rsh connections on Solaris 2.
284 b. Assignments to read-only variables preceding a command name are now
285 variable assignment errors. Variable assignment errors cause
286 non-interactive shells running in posix mode to exit.
288 c. The word tokenizer was rewritten to handle nested quotes and pairs
289 ('', "", ``, ${...}, $(...), $[...], $'...', $"...", <(...), >(...))
290 correctly. Some of the parameter expansion code was updated as a
293 d. A fix was made to `test' when given three arguments so that a binary
294 operator is checked for first, before checking that the first argument
297 e. 2''>/dev/null is no longer equivalent to 2>/dev/null.
299 f. Parser error messages were regularized, and in most cases the name of
300 the shell script being read by a non-interactive shell is not printed
303 g. A fix was made to the completion code so that it no longer removes the
304 text the user typed in some cases.
306 h. The special glibc `getopt' environment variable is no longer put into
307 the environment on machines with small values of ARG_MAX.
309 i. The expansion of ${...} now follows the POSIX.2 rules for finding the
312 j. The shell no longer displays spurious status messages for background
313 jobs in shell scripts that complete successfully when the script is
316 k. `shopt -o' now correctly updates $SHELLOPTS.
318 l. A bug that caused the $PATH searching code to return a non-executable
319 file even when an executable file with the same name appeared later in
322 m. The shell now does tilde expansions on unquoted `:~' in assignment
323 statements when not in posix mode.
325 n. Variable assignment errors when a command consists only of assignments
326 now cause non-interactive shells to exit when in posix mode.
328 o. If the variable in a `for' or `select' command is read-only, or not a
329 legal shell identifier, a variable assignment error occurs.
331 p. `test' now handles `-a' and `-o' as binary operators when three arguments
332 are supplied, and correctly parses `( word )' as equivalent to `word'.
334 q. `test' was fixed so that file names of the form /dev/fd/NN mean the same
335 thing on all systems, even Linux.
337 r. Fixed a bug in the globbing code that caused patterns with multiple
338 consecutive `*'s to not be matched correctly.
340 s. Fixed a bug that caused $PS2 to not be printed when an interactive shell
341 not using readline is reading a here document.
343 t. Fixed a bug that caused history expansion to be performed inappropriately
344 when a single-quoted string spanned more than one line.
346 u. `getopts' now checks that the variable name passed by the user as the
347 second argument is a legal shell identifier and that the variable is
350 v. Fixed `getopts' to obey POSIX.2 rules for setting $OPTIND when it
353 w. Fixed `set' to display variable values in a form that can be re-read.
355 x. Fixed a bug in the code that keeps track of whether or not local variables
356 have been declared at the current level of function nesting.
358 y. Non-interactive shells in posix mode now exit if the name in a function
359 declaration is not a legal identifier.
361 z. The job control code now ignores stopped children when the shell is not
364 aa. The `cd' builtin no longer attempts spelling correction on the directory
365 name if the shell is not interactive, regardless of the setting of the
368 bb. Some OS-specific changes were made for SCO 3.2v[45] and AIX 4.2.
370 cc. `time' now prints its output to stderr, as POSIX.2 specifies.
374 a. After printing possible completions, all lines of a multi-line prompt
377 b. Some changes were made to the terminal handling code in rltty.c to
378 work around AIX 4.2 bugs.
380 3. New Features in Bash
382 a. There is a new loadable builtin: sprintf, with calling syntax
383 sprintf var format [args]
384 This provides an easy way to simulate ksh left- and right-justified
387 b. The expansions of \h and \H in prompt strings were swapped. \h now
388 expands to the hostname up to the first `.', as in bash-1.14.
390 4. New Features in Readline
392 a. The bash-1.14 behavior when ^M is typed while doing an incremental
393 search was restored. ^J may now be used to terminate the search without
396 b. There is a new bindable variable: disable-completion. This inhibits
397 word completion and causes the completion character to be inserted as
398 if it had been bound to self-insert.
400 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
401 This document details the changes between this version, bash-2.0-alpha3,
402 and the previous version, bash-2.0-alpha2.
404 There is now a file `COMPAT' included in the distribution that lists the
405 user-visible incompatibilities between 1.14 and 2.0.
409 a. Some work was done so that word splitting of the rhs of assignment
410 statements conforms more closely to historical practice.
412 b. A couple of errant memory frees were fixed.
414 c. A fix was made to the test builtin so it recognizes `<' and `>' as
417 d. The GNU malloc in lib/malloc/malloc.c now scrambles memory as it's
418 allocated and freed. This is to catch callers that refer to freed
419 memory or assume something about newly-allocated memory.
421 e. Fixed a problem with conversion to 12-hour time in the prompt
424 f. Fixed a problem with configure's argument parsing order. Now you can
425 correctly turn on specific options after using --enable-minimal-config.
427 g. The configure script now automatically disables the use of GNU malloc
428 on systems where it's appropriate (better than having people read the
429 NOTES file and do it manually).
431 h. There are new prompt expansions (\v and \V) to insert version information
432 into the prompt strings.
434 i. The default prompt string now includes the version number.
436 j. Most of the builtins that take no options were changed to use the
437 internal getopt so they can produce proper error messages for -?
438 and incorrect options.
440 k. Some system-specific changes were made for SVR4.2 and Solaris 2.5.
442 l. Bash now uses PATH_MAX instead of MAXPATHLEN and NAME_MAX instead of
445 m. A couple of problems caused by uninitialized variables were fixed.
447 n. There are a number of new loadable builtin examples: logname, basename,
448 dirname, tty, pathchk, tee, head, and rmdir. All of these conform to
451 o. Bash now notices changes in TZ and calls tzset() if present, so
452 changing TZ will alter the time printed by prompt expansions.
454 p. The source was reorganized a bit so I don't have to wait so long for
455 some files to compile, and to facilitate the creation of a `shell
456 library' at some future point.
458 q. Bash no longer turns off job control if called as `sh', since the
459 POSIX.2 spec includes job control as a standard feature.
461 r. `bash -o posix' now works as intended.
463 s. Fixed a problem with the completion code: when completing a filename
464 that contained globbing characters, if show-all-if-ambiguous was set,
465 the completion code would remove the user's text.
467 t. Fixed ulimit so that (hopefully) the full range of limits is available
470 u. A new `shopt' option (`hostcomplete') enables and disables hostname
473 v. The shell no longer attempts to save the history on an abort(),
474 which is usually called by programming_error().
476 w. The `-s' option to `fc' was changed to echo the command to be executed
477 to stderr instead of stdout.
479 x. If the editor invoked by `fc -e' exits with a non-zero status, no
480 commands are executed.
482 y. Fixed a bug that made the shopt `histverify' option work incorrectly.
484 z. There is a new variable `MACHTYPE' whose value is the GNU-style
485 `cpu-company-system' system description as set by configure. (The
486 values of MACHTYPE and HOSTTYPE should really be swapped.)
488 aa. The `ulimit' builtin now allows the maximum virtual memory size to be
489 set via setrlimit(2) if RLIMIT_VMEM is defined.
491 bb. `bash -nc 'command'' no longer runs `command'.
493 2. Changes to Readline
495 a. Fixed a typo in the code that checked for FIONREAD in input.c.
497 b. Fixed a bug in the code that outputs keybindings, so things like C-\
500 c. Fixed a bug in the inputrc file parsing code to handle the problems
501 caused by inputrc files created from the output of `bind -p' in
502 previous versions of bash. The problem was due to the bug fixed
505 d. Readline no longer turns off the terminal's meta key, and turns it on
506 once the first time it's called.
508 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
509 This file documents the changes between this version, bash-2.0-alpha2,
510 and the previous version, bash-2.0-alpha.
514 a. The shell no longer thinks directories are executable.
516 b. `disown' has a new option, `h', which inhibits the resending of SIGHUP
517 but does not remove the job from the jobs table.
519 c. The varargs functions in error.c now use ANSI-C `stdarg' if available.
521 d. The build process now treats the `build version' in .build as local to
522 the build directory, so different versions built from the same source
523 tree have different `build versions'.
525 e. Some problems with the grammar have been fixed. (It used `list' in a few
526 productions where `compound_list' was needed. A `list' must be terminated
527 with a newline or semicolon; a `compound_list' need not be.)
529 f. A fix was made to keep `wait' from hanging when waiting for all background
532 g. `bash --help' now writes its output to stdout, like the GNU Coding Standards
533 specify, and includes the machine type (the value of MACHTYPE).
535 h. `bash --version' now prints more information and exits successfully, like
536 the GNU Coding Standards specify.
538 i. The output of `time' and `times' now prints fractional seconds with three
539 places after the decimal point.
541 j. A bug that caused process substitutions to screw up the pipeline printed
544 k. Fixes were made to the code that implements $'...' and $"..." so they
547 l. The process substitution code now opens named pipes for reading with
548 O_NONBLOCK to avoid hanging.
550 m. Fixes were made to the trap code so the shell cleans up correctly if the
551 trap command contains a `return' and we're executing a function or
552 sourcing a script with `.'.
554 n. Fixes to doc/Makefile.in so that it doesn't try to remake all of the
555 documentation (ps, dvi, etc.) on a `make install'.
557 o. Fixed an auto-increment error that caused bash -c args to sometimes dump
560 p. Fixed a bug that caused $HISTIGNORE to fail when the history line
561 contained globbing characters.
563 2. Changes to Readline
565 a. There is a new string variable, rl_library_version, available for use by
566 applications. The current value is "2.1".
568 b. A bug encountered when expand-tilde was enabled and file completion was
569 attempted on a word beginning with `~/' was fixed.
571 c. A slight change was made to the incremental search termination behavior.
572 ESC still terminates the search, but if input is pending or arrives
573 within 0.1 seconds (on systems with select(2)), it is used as a prefix
574 character. This is intented to allow users to terminate searches with
575 the arrow keys and get the behavior they expect.