This allows specifying a %job (which is equivalent to the corresponding
process group).
Additionally, it improves reliability of kill from sh in high-load
situations and ensures "kill" finds the correct utility regardless of PATH,
as required by POSIX (unless the undocumented %builtin mechanism is used).
Side effect: fatal errors (any error other than kill(2) failure) now return
exit status 2 instead of 1. (This is consistent with other sh builtins, but
not in NetBSD.)
Code size increases about 1K on i386.
Obtained from: NetBSD
This was removed in 2001 but I think it is appropriate to add it back:
* I do not want to encourage people to write fragile and non-portable echo
commands by making printf much slower than echo.
* Recent versions of Autoconf use it a lot.
* Almost no software still wants to support systems that do not have
printf(1) at all.
* In many other shells printf is already a builtin.
Side effect: printf is now always the builtin version (which behaves
identically to /usr/bin/printf) and cannot be overridden via PATH (except
via the undocumented %builtin mechanism).
Code size increases about 5K on i386. Embedded folks might want to replace
/usr/bin/printf with a hard link to /usr/bin/alias.
These are specified by POSIX but are not special builtins, and therefore
need to be available via execve() and utilities like time, nohup, xargs.
(Note that hash was moved from the XSI option to the base in the 2008
standard.)
Like most of the POSIX "regular builtin commands", these need to be executed
in a shell environment for full functionality, although they may still be of
some use outside one.
Unlike the POSIX special and regular builtin commands, POSIX does not
require these to be found before a PATH search, although that could be an
oversight.
Like some of the utilities already provided by usr.bin/alias, these may lead
to confusing results when invoked from csh(1).
- The first "alias" "Yes" should be "No**".
- Made "builtin echo command" consistent with csh and sh manpages.
- In group of 3 interactive commands, 2 used .Pa instead of .Ic.
- "Name" section now has "builtin" and "built-in" for better apropos.
- Added these builtins: !, %, ., :, @, {, }, local, return
PR: docs/85065
Approved by: keramida
MFC after: 3 days
used so often that it's worth keeping it as a builtin.
Now that all the printf invocations from within the system startup
scripts, we can safely remove it.
Urged by: sheldonh :)
No MFC is planned so far because it may break compatibility and
violate POLA.
binary size increase is 3,784 bytes (about 0.6%).
I don't drop the printf builtin while I'm here because some /etc/rc.*
scripts seem to use it before mounting /usr where printf(1) resides.
Reviewed by: arch (sheldonh)
Inspired by: NetBSD, ksh
Clued by: ume (on how the printf builtin is used)
cd src/share; find man[1-9] -type f|xargs perl -pi -e 's/[ \t]+$//'
BTW, what editors are the culprits? I'm using vim and it shows
me whitespace at EOL in troff files with a thick blue block...
Reviewed by: Silence from cvs diff -b
MFC after: 7 days
to tcsh(1) upgrade. The following commands were added as builtins:
bindkey
builtins
complete
echotc
filetest
hup
log
ls-F
printenv
sched
settc
setty
telltc
uncomplete
where
The printf builtin was removed.
commit and those which cause ugly nroff output have been fixed, since
the purpose of the style guideline which they contravene is to reduce
the sizes of deltas.
Reported by: bde
* Consistently misspell built-in as builtin.
* Add a builtin(1) manpage and create builtin(1) MLINKS for all shell
builtin commands for which no standalone utility exists. These MLINKS
replace those that were created for csh(1).
* Add appropriate xrefs for builtin(1) to the csh(1) and sh(1) manpages,
as well as to the manpages of standalone utilities which are supported
as shell builtin commands in at least one of the shells. In such
manpages, explain that similar functionality may be provided as a
shell builtin command.
* Improve sh(1)'s description of the cd builtin command. Csh(1) already
describes it adequately. Replace the cd(1) manpage with a builtin(1)
MLINKS link.
* Clean up some mdoc problems: use Xr instead of literal "foo(n)"; use
Ic instead of Xr for shell builtin commands.
* Undo English contractions.
Reviewed by: mpp, rgrimes
