-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora EPEL Update Notification FEDORA-EPEL-2011-5069 2011-11-24 20:08:08 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : mksh Product : Fedora EPEL 4 Version : 40c Release : 1.el4 URL : http://www.mirbsd.de/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 R40c collects stable development, mostly fixes:
* Fix ${foo%?} in -o sh * Fix spelling mistakes * Fix bugs spotted during porting to OPENSTEP * Unbreak building stristr with MKSH_ASSUME_UTF8 defined * Fix most of the issues Jerker Bäck encountered on Interix * Wrap access(2) as it may return false positive for X_OK on root * Upper bound Emacs mode command repeat by input line length * Improve CPPFLAGS mangling in Build.sh * Several comment, documentation and website fixes/updates * Avoid identifiers and cpp(1) macros with two underscores in a row, and those with a trailing underscore; they are reserved for the OS * Fix accidental behavioural change wrt some built-in parameters * Port to MSYS * Interix select(2) bug workaround * Manpage fixes * Deprecate the “command line begins with ‘!’ for fc -e -” wbx hack * Promote x=(a b); x+=(c d) to a core mksh(1) feature * Testsuite fixes for Hurd, MSYS; warning fixes for dietlibc * Fix R40 regression misparsing $(case x in (x) :; esac) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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 http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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