Re: Is ksh93's default alias command='command ' POSIX compliant?

2020-06-19 Thread Joerg Schilling
Martijn Dekker wrote: > Op 18-06-20 om 14:11 schreef Joerg Schilling: > > Is my impression correct that you did not use the modifications from Redhat > > people that introduced non-portability, many bugs and a slowdown? > > Yes. This is really good news. > I don't know much about malloc, but wh

Re: Is ksh93's default alias command='command ' POSIX compliant?

2020-06-18 Thread Martijn Dekker
Op 18-06-20 om 14:11 schreef Joerg Schilling: Is my impression correct that you did not use the modifications from Redhat people that introduced non-portability, many bugs and a slowdown? Yes. Be careful when looking at changes from these people, since they e.g. did throw away the ksh93 speci

Re: Is ksh93's default alias command='command ' POSIX compliant?

2020-06-18 Thread Joerg Schilling
Martijn Dekker wrote: > Op 16-06-20 om 17:37 schreef Alan Coopersmith: > > We are maintaining ksh93 packages, but not doing active development work on > > them. Our packages are still based on the last stable release from AT&T - > > 2012-08-01 with an unfortunately high number of local patches a

Re: Is ksh93's default alias command='command ' POSIX compliant?

2020-06-16 Thread Martijn Dekker
Op 16-06-20 om 17:37 schreef Alan Coopersmith: We are maintaining ksh93 packages, but not doing active development work on them. Our packages are still based on the last stable release from AT&T - 2012-08-01 with an unfortunately high number of local patches applied: https://github.com/oracle/so

Re: Is ksh93's default alias command='command ' POSIX compliant?

2020-06-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 6/15/20 11:14 PM, Stephane Chazelas wrote: 2020-06-14 16:00:58 +0200, Martijn Dekker: I am now the maintainer of what is currently, to the best of my knowledge, the only actively developed fork of AT&T ksh93. It is based on the last stable AST version, 93u+ 2012-08-01. Along with a few others

Re: Is ksh93's default alias command='command ' POSIX compliant?

2020-06-15 Thread Stephane Chazelas
2020-06-14 16:00:58 +0200, Martijn Dekker: > I am now the maintainer of what is currently, to the best of my knowledge, > the only actively developed fork of AT&T ksh93. It is based on the last > stable AST version, 93u+ 2012-08-01. Along with a few others I have been > fixing a bunch of bugs. See

Re: Is ksh93's default alias command='command ' POSIX compliant?

2020-06-14 Thread Martijn Dekker
Op 14-06-20 om 18:03 schreef shwaresyst: The command alias is nominally conforming, I believe, in that recursive alias expansion isn't permitted so looking for a utility named command still occurs. So are you saying that, in order to be POSIXly sure of running a standard command 'foo' given t

RE: Is ksh93's default alias command='command ' POSIX compliant?

2020-06-14 Thread shwaresyst
The command alias is nominally conforming, I believe, in that recursive alias expansion isn't permitted so looking for a utility named command still occurs. However, the implementation of various utilities as aliases changes the reporting of 'command -v', or '-V',  to that they are aliases and