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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2011-5221
2011-12-12 19:09:13
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Name : mksh
Product : Fedora EPEL 5
Version : 40d
Release : 1.el5
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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Update Information:
mksh R40d is a must-have bugfix update:
* New test.sh ‘-f’ option (same as ‘-C fastbox’)
* Drop using set -o noglob inside pushd/popd/dirs
* Use += more in dot.mkshrc and keep strings shorter
* Correct interworking between local and set -A
* Fix out-of-bounds memory access on strings of 32 KiB length
* MKSH_DISABLE_DEPRECATED (for integrators)
* test(1) built-in behaves exactly as POSIX says
* Move compile-time assertions to Build.sh from misc.c#ifdef DEBUG
* Invocation documentation is at the bottom of Build.sh
* test.sh: verbosely look for perl(1) interpreter to use
* New tests for integers (base 1‥36, base unspecified, base OOB)
* Correct error paths for typeset -n global state
* Deprecate interpreting "010" as octal number, will go
* Improvements re. integer handling; more explicit manpage text
* Do not use caddr_t on Linux, so dietlibc stops bitching
* Catch division/modulo overflow 0x80000000/-1
* Emacs mode ^O regression fix when the fetched lines are edited
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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/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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