converting the stat() call to a lstat() call, which will cover the
situation. One can exercise this bug by referring a dangling link with
something like */the-link.
Approved by: re (scottl)
Submitted by: Simon 'corecode' Schubert [corecode fs ei tum de]
Obtained from: NetBSD via DragonFlyBSD (NetBSD rev. 1.51 and DragonFly
rev. 1.6)
MFC After: 3 days
promised by the Argument List Processing section introduction.
What follows the option in the options list is its long name,
not its argument (as is the case for the -c option). Also
sort references in the SEE ALSO section.
Approved by: re (blanket)
benefit of scripts start out as: #!/bin/sh -- # -*- perl -*-
With this fix in place, we can commit a change to kern/imgact_shell.c
so FreeBSD will process the `#!' line in shell-scripts in a more
standard fashion.
PR: 16393
Mentioned on: freebsd-arch
- Move the description of the ``-c string'' option closer to the option itself.
- Add an ENVIRONMENT section (1)
- Add more .Xr cross references to the SEE ALSO section.
Obtained from: NetBSD (1)
work as expected when they have a "shebang line" of:
#!/bin/sh -- # -*- perl -*- -p
This specific line is recommended in some perl documentation, and I think
I've seen similar lines in documentation for ruby and python. Those
write-ups expect `sh' to ignore everything after the '--' if the first
thing after the '--' is a '#'. See chapter 19, "The Command-Line Interface"
in 3rd edition of "Programming Perl", for some discussion of why perl
recommends using this line in some circumstances.
The above line does work on solaris, irix and aix (as three data points),
and it used to work on FreeBSD by means of a similar patch to execve().
However, that change to execve() effected *all* shells (which caused
other problems), and that processing was recently removed.
PR: 16393 (the original request to fix the same issue)
Reviewed by: freebsd-current (looking at a slightly different patch)
MFC after: 1 week
XXX from Tor: "The shell can also go into a similar loop if the child was
killed by signal 127, since the shell would believe the child to have
only stopped (WIFSTOPPED() macro returns nonzero value). Disallowing
signals 127 and 128 will fix that problem." See kern/19402 for details.
PR: bin/66242
Submitted by: tegge
Analysis and testcase by: demon
MFC after: 3 weeks
instead of just !, this allows one to more easily locate/understand
the section of the manpage in question.
Additional wording correction by: keramida
Reviewed by: keramida
considered an error according to the Open Group Base Specification.
PR: standards/45738
Submitted by: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@web.de>
MFC after: 3 days
Only use return value from system call if system call succeeded.
Tested with `make world` and some of my own scripts.
This should be MFCed soon. While /bin/sh is hard to test the fix is
obviously correct and can be assumed not to break something else
(famous last words...).
Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.ORG>, subshells could lose a
non-zero exit status.
This commit is Joe's proposed patch. Thanks!
I verified that the problem Joe found is fixed and I ran a full world
with this patch.
I don't plan to ever commit language patches to /bin/sh again. It is
a minefield too big to navigate without a full-time committment, which
I am not willing to do on our /bin/sh.
Under normal circumstances I would recommend using NetBSD's sh which
has a lot of language fixes (like the ones what these patches were
about) but unfortunately they had implemented broken signal behaviour
for shellscript containing interactive programs. Similar issues apply
to pdksh which is OpenBSD's sh.
From my perspective bash2 is the only really working bourne sh out
there and that one is GPLed. Oh well.
should slightly reduce the number of system calls in critical portions of
the shell, and select a more efficient path through the fdalloc code.
Reviewed by: bde
