-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-11808 2009-11-20 04:25:35 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : ksh Product : Fedora 12 Version : 20091021 Release : 1.fc12 URL : http://www.kornshell.com/ Summary : The Original ATT Korn Shell Description : KSH-93 is the most recent version of the KornShell by David Korn of AT&T Bell Laboratories. KornShell is a shell programming language, which is upward compatible with "sh" (the Bourne Shell).
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- A bug in which a function loaded in a subshell could leave side effects in the parent shell has been fixed. - A bug in the handling of the escape character \ in directory prefixes in command completion has been fixed. - A bug in which unsetting SVLVL could cause a script - invoked by name without #! to core dump has been fixed. - A bug in which a pipeline in a here-document could hang when the pipefail option was on has been fixed. - A bug in which a subshell containing a background process could block until the background process completed has been fixed. - A bug in the handling of the trap on SIGPIPE that could lead to a memory fault has been fixed. - A bug in the handling of the comma operator in arithmetic expressions that could cause a core dump on some systems has been fixed. - Several memory leaks were fixed primarily related to subshells. - A bug in which setting the trap on CHLD to ignore could cause a script to hang has been fixed. - and much more.... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog:
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