When comparing my recent parser change against the ash in 1.1.5.1, i
found that a couple of other problems in the same area has been fixed
there, but not in 2.2. Semicolons and EOF do also delimit words...
The && and || tokens do also terminate a command, not only the
newline.
While i was at it, disabled trace code by default, it served no good
purpose since it required the use of a debugger anyway to be turned
on. Instead, placed a hint in the Makefile on how to turn it on.
This makes the shell ~ 10 % faster and ~ 4 KB smaller. :)
Pointed out by: jan@physik.TU-Berlin.DE (Jan Riedinger)
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Turns out, it's pretty important if you use PAX for backup. In the man
page for PAX, there is an error (OK, we could call it a "potentially
catastrophic incompleteness"). It reads:
> The command:
>
> pax -r -v -f filename
>
> gives the verbose table of contents for an archive stored in filename.
Yup, it does do that. With a side effect: it also _replaces_ all the
files that come in from the archive. As is my custom, I did my
backup-validation real soon after the backup was written. Precisely
because I've seen the same sort of thing happen on other systems. So all
that file-restoring didn't do a lot of damage. Probably helped my
fragmentation somewhat (aha, an online defragger?) It did confuse one
hapless user, who lost an email message he _knew_ he hadn't deleted.
Apparently the system restored the file as of just before that critical
message came in.
The correct entry should read:
> The command:
>
> pax -v -f filename
>
> gives the verbose table of contents for an archive stored in filename.
Submitted by: John Beckett <jbeckett@southern.edu> via the BSDI mailing list
comparisions have been made as string comparisions, even in cases
where both operands clearly qualified as integers.
The fix is to make the parser properly analyzing whether an operand is
a valid integer or not.
stream, such as a rsh or vi pipeline.
The error message is:
stty: TIOCGETD: Operation not supported
It's immediately obvious to the knowledgable hacker type, but not
exactly comforting to the user who's not native to unix. It's
especially confusing if there's a stty command in their .cshrc and
it's showing up on rsh output.
(Fixes PR #bin/573)
Submitted by: peter@haywire.dialix.com (Peter Wemm)
cpio/copyout.c:
Don't output a file if the major, minor or totality of its rdev would be
truncated. Print a message about the skipped files to stderr but don't
report the error in the exit status. cpio's abysmal error handling doesn't
allow continuing after an error, and the rdev checks had to be misplaced
to avoid the problem of returning an error code from routines that return
void.
pax/pax.h:
Use the system macros for major(), minor() and makedev().
pax already checks _all_ output conversions for overflow. This has the
undesirable effect that failure to convert relatively useless fields
such as st_dev for regular files causes files not to be output. pax
doesn't report exactly which fields couldn't be converted.
tar/create.c:
Don't output a file if the major or minor its rdev would be truncated.
Print a message about the skipped files to stderr and report the error
in the exit status.
tar/tar.c:
For not immediately fatal errors, exit with status 1, not the error count
(mod 256).
All:
Minor numbers are limited to 21 bits in pax's ustar format and to 18
bits in archives created by gnu tar (gnu tar wastes 3 bits for padding).
pax's and cpio's ustar format is incompatible with gnu tar's ustar
format for other reasons (see cpio/README).
documented and is incompatible with gnu cp. It has very few good effects
(it recovers some disk space) and many bad ones:
- special files are unlinked after certain errors.
- the data may not be recoverable if the source is a special file or fifo.
- unlinking destroys the target attributes as well as the target data.
- unlinking doesn't actually remove the target data if the target is multiply
linked.
There is a bug in sh: the built in command "fc -l" generates
a core dump (*NULL in not_fcnumber).
According to the sh manual page (fc -l [-nr] [first [last]]), fc -l
is a correct sequence (in that case, values are defaulted to -16 and -1)
but fails when first is not given.
and `rtsflow' are the components of `crtscts'. `dtrflow' and `dsrflow' are
new and not yet supported. `dtrflow' may be useful for Cyclades serial
careds, which have h/w support for it and no h/w support for `rtsflow'.
print.c:
Report NTTYDISC in case the line is in this obsolescent state.
/usr/src/bin. Note that some patches are still needed in that directory.
I (Joerg) finished most of Philippe's cleanup. /bin/sh will still
need *allot* of work, however.
Submitted by: charnier@lirmm.fr (Philippe Charnier)
of queuing mails only can be restored by uncommenting a CFLAGS+= line
in the makefile, so sites that _really_ need this (perhaps some huge
mail hubs) can still have it. The majority of FreeBSD boxes is better
served with an immediate delivery (and last time i've been asking on
the list, nobody complained).
