commit 4a98d16dd0255ca3f19a4c5c4ed7034909578590
parent 5e6e70ecec4fe5605e1184d3336853551e13680b
Author: tgoodwin <tgoodwin>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 16:00:00 +0000
some more stuff
Diffstat:
| M | ChangeLog | | | 84 | +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------------------- |
1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
@@ -287,8 +287,7 @@ Changes since rc-1.5b2
Configuration: don't leave FIFOs in /tmp when configuring.
- Configuration: let configure find `-ltermcap' when using
- readline.
+ Configuration: let configure find `-ltermcap' when using readline.
Configuration: pick up default path from config.cache.
@@ -304,58 +303,57 @@ Changes since rc-1.5b2
Configuration: remove version.c; `id' is defined in main.c now.
- Bug: clear list of living children after fork(); `{ ls & wait }
- |cat' no longer hangs or panics.
+ Bug: clear list of living children after fork(); `{ ls & wait } |cat'
+ no longer hangs or panics.
Testing: add regression test for above.
Tidiness: all the system call wrappers to prevent calls being
- restarted now live in system-bsd.c. The configure script
- decides whether to build system.c or system-bsd.c. Also,
- signal.c is more careful to only declare slowbuf if it will be
- needed.
+ restarted now live in system-bsd.c. The configure script decides
+ whether to build system.c or system-bsd.c. Also, signal.c is more
+ careful to only declare slowbuf if it will be needed.
- Tidiness: similarly, configure decides whether to build execve.c
- or not.
+ Tidiness: similarly, configure decides whether to build execve.c or
+ not.
- Portability: test for ssize_t and use it where available; use
- long if there's no ssize_t.
+ Portability: test for ssize_t and use it where available; use long if
+ there's no ssize_t.
- Portability: use sigsetjmp where it's available and appropriate.
- If no sigsetjmp, just use sigjmp; this probably fails in a
- traditional SysV environment.
+ Portability: use sigsetjmp where it's available and appropriate. If
+ no sigsetjmp, just use sigjmp; this probably fails in a traditional
+ SysV environment.
- Portability: test explicitly for SysV SIGCLD semantics. Main
- (and dubious) benefit is that you can now define a function
- called `sigcld' on systems where there is no signal called
- SIGCLD!
+ Portability: test explicitly for SysV SIGCLD semantics. Main (and
+ dubious) benefit is that you can now define a function called `sigcld'
+ on systems where there is no signal called SIGCLD!
Bug: rc has its own memory allocator; don't use malloc directly.
- Bug: the rc_wait() wrapper is only needed on systems which
- restart system calls. On Linux, in particular, the wrapper
- leads to a race which causes rc to hang (or panic in later
- versions). Other systems apparently don't exercise this race.
+ Bug: the rc_wait() wrapper is only needed on systems which restart
+ system calls. On Linux, in particular, the wrapper leads to a race
+ which causes rc to hang (or panic in later versions). Other systems
+ apparently don't exercise this race.
- Bug: waitforall() must return if rc_wait4() returns with errno
- == EINTR. Otherwise, the rc builtin `wait' cannot be interrupted
- if there are background processes (although apparently only if
- there is a handler for SIGINT).
+ Bug: waitforall() must return if rc_wait4() returns with errno ==
+ EINTR. Otherwise, the rc builtin `wait' cannot be interrupted if
+ there are background processes (although apparently only if there is a
+ handler for SIGINT).
- Portability: dreadful hack to track down the real locations
- of signal.h to find signal names. rc now builds under CygWin32!
+ Portability: dreadful hack to track down the real locations of
+ signal.h to find signal names. rc now builds under CygWin32!
Portability: replace above dreadful hack with mksignal.c, contributed
by Vincent Broman.
Portability: use POSIX wait() macros (WIFEXITED and friends).
- Unfortunately, POSIX omitted to supply WIFDUMPED, so this doesn't buy a
- great deal.
+ Unfortunately, POSIX omitted to supply WIFDUMPED, so this doesn't buy
+ a great deal.
- Distribution: remove the dependencies of y.tab.[ch] on parse.y from Makefile.am.
- The justification for this is that, unless you're hacking on rc's grammar, there's
- no reason to use anything other than the distributed files (which were generated
- with byacc and very lightly edited to silence a few gcc warnings).
+ Distribution: remove the dependencies of y.tab.[ch] on parse.y from
+ Makefile.am. The justification for this is that, unless you're
+ hacking on rc's grammar, there's no reason to use anything other
+ than the distributed files (which were generated with byacc and very
+ lightly edited to silence a few gcc warnings).
Enhancement: the example in addon.c wasn't very useful, since it
depended on files which weren't included with the distribution. There
@@ -375,11 +373,11 @@ Changes since rc-1.5b2
Bug: the interaction with readline was broken, particularly with
respect to signal handling. I've incorporated some changes from Tom
- Culliton which should sort this out. Unfortunately, we now have 3 different
- code paths for readline 2.1, readline 2.2, and editline :-(.
+ Culliton which should sort this out. Unfortunately, we now have 3
+ different code paths for readline 2.1, readline 2.2, and editline :-(.
- Configuration: if you say `--with-readline' or `--with-editline' it is now an
- error if the appropriate library is not found.
+ Configuration: if you say `--with-readline' or `--with-editline' it is
+ now an error if the appropriate library is not found.
Bug: rc didn't work on RedHat 5 systems. This is because of
peculiarities in the handling of signals and system calls on this
@@ -390,8 +388,8 @@ Changes since rc-1.5b2
have sigaction(), we use signal() and check for restartable system
calls as usual.) I'm not entirely confident that this fix is solid.
- Portability: on AIX, lconv is defined by the system header files. Rename
- lconv in print.c to avoid the clash.
+ Portability: on AIX, lconv is defined by the system header files.
+ Rename lconv in print.c to avoid the clash.
- Testing: add a test that `cd' prints the new directory if we are interactive and
- the directory was found via $cdpath.
+ Testing: add a test that `cd' prints the new directory if we are
+ interactive and the directory was found via $cdpath.
