Expand here documents at the same point other redirections are expanded but
use a non-fork subshell environment (like simple command substitutions) for
compatibility. Substitition errors result in an empty here document like
before.
As a result, a fork is avoided for short (<4K) expanded here documents.
Unexpanded here documents (with quoted end marker after <<) are not affected
by this change. They already only forked when >4K.
Side effects:
* Order of expansion is slightly different.
* Slow expansions are not executed in parallel with the redirected command.
* A non-fork subshell environment is subtly different from a forked process.
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.
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
merge of parallel duplicate work by Steve Price and myself. :-]
There are some changes to the build that are my fault... mkinit.c was
trying (poorly) to duplicate some of the work that make(1) is designed to
do. The Makefile hackery is my fault too, the depend list was incomplete
because of some explicit OBJS+= entries, so mkdep wasn't picking up their
source file #includes.
This closes a pile of /bin/sh PR's, but not all of them..
Submitted by: Steve Price <steve@bonsai.hiwaay.net>, peter
