-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora EPEL Update Notification FEDORA-EPEL-2015-ecec668f09 2015-12-29 00:58:28.130612 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : mksh Product : Fedora EPEL 5 Version : 52 Release : 1.el5 URL : https://www.mirbsd.org/mksh.htm Summary : MirBSD enhanced version of the Korn Shell Description : mksh is the MirBSD enhanced version of the Public Domain Korn shell (pdksh), a bourne-compatible shell which is largely similar to the original AT&T Korn shell. It includes bug fixes and feature improvements in order to produce a modern, robust shell good for interactive and especially script use, being a bourne shell replacement, pdksh successor and an alternative to the C shell.
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mksh R52 ======== R52 is a strongly recommended bugfix release: * Move moving external link from mksh(1) to the #ksh channel homepage linked therein * Make setenv ���set -u���-safe and fix when invoked with no args * Make ���typeset -f��� output reentrant if name is a reserved word * Zero-pad seconds in ���time��� output to align columns * Check signals and errorlevels from OS to be within bounds * Quote and document ���;��� as PATH separator in some places * Simplify code to call afree() even if arg is NULL * Fix tree-printing and reentrancy of multiple here documents * Work around LP#1030581 by permitting exactly one space after * Code quality work, cleanups * New code for here documents/strings with several bugfixes * Stop using issetugid(2) for ��p checks, wrong tool for the job * Reintroduce some -o posix changes lost in 2005, plus fixes * Make ���source��� into a built-in command * Drop ���stop��� alias, lksh(1) functionality to auto-unalias * Fix \u0000 ignored in $'���' and print * Improve portability of Build.sh * Improve portability of testsuite * Fix tilde expansion for some substitutions * Improve reparsing of ((���) |���) as ( (���) |���) * Fix test(1) not returning evaluation errors * Fix ${*:+x} constructs (carstenh) * Make (( ��� )) into a compound command (ormaaj) * Repair a few parameter substitution expansion mistakes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1291069 - mksh-52 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1291069 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use su -c 'yum update mksh' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at https://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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