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# 1.12 10-Sep-2025 kre

PR bin/59646 option.list wsp consistency

Be consistent with use of tab/space in fields used as
sort keys, so versions of sort which might not behave
exactly as we expect should still produce the same results.

XXX pullup -9 -10 -11


Revision tags: perseant-exfatfs-base-20250801 netbsd-11-base
# 1.11 14-Oct-2024 kre

branches: 1.11.2;
Add a -r (version) option to sh

This new -r (or +r) option is for command line use only.
When encountered, the shell simply prints its version info
(such as it has, which isn't much) and exits (immediately).

This allows "funny" uses like
sh -version
the -v and -e options are standard, and processed as normal
(changing nothing, yet, except setting the option). Then the
'r' option is seen, the version info is printed, and the shell
exits. Any remaining "options" (there is no "-o n" option) are
ignored, as are any other args given to the shell.

The string printed (currently) is just "NetBSD shell:" followed
by the value of the NETBSD_SHELL variable (which has been established
already by the time options are processed).


Revision tags: netbsd-10-1-RELEASE perseant-exfatfs-base-20240630 perseant-exfatfs-base netbsd-10-0-RELEASE netbsd-10-0-RC6 netbsd-10-0-RC5 netbsd-10-0-RC4 netbsd-10-0-RC3 netbsd-10-0-RC2 netbsd-10-0-RC1 netbsd-10-base
# 1.10 18-Sep-2022 kre

branches: 1.10.2; 1.10.4;
Add the -l option (aka -o login): be a login shell. Meaningful only on
the command line (with both - and + forms) - overrides the presence (or
otherwise) of a '-' as argv[0][0].

Since this allows any shell to be a login shell (which simply means that
it runs /etc/profile and ~/.profile at shell startup - there are no other
side effects) add a new, always set at startup, variable NBSH_INVOCATION
which has a char string as its value, where each char has a meaning,
more or less related to how the shell was started. See sh(1).
This is intended to allow those startup scripts to tailor their behaviour
to the nature of this particular login shell (it is possible to detect
whether a shell is a login shell merely because of -l, or whether it would
have been anyway, before the -l option was added - and more). The
var could also be used to set different values for $ENV for different
uses of the shell.


Revision tags: netbsd-9-4-RELEASE netbsd-9-3-RELEASE cjep_sun2x-base1 cjep_sun2x-base cjep_staticlib_x-base1 netbsd-9-2-RELEASE cjep_staticlib_x-base netbsd-9-1-RELEASE phil-wifi-20200421 phil-wifi-20200411 is-mlppp-base phil-wifi-20200406 netbsd-9-0-RELEASE netbsd-9-0-RC2 netbsd-9-0-RC1 phil-wifi-20191119 netbsd-9-base phil-wifi-20190609 pgoyette-compat-20190127 pgoyette-compat-20190118 pgoyette-compat-1226 pgoyette-compat-1126
# 1.9 23-Nov-2018 kre

branches: 1.9.2;

Avoid long option names that differ only in character case.
Change Xtrace (the name) to xlock instead. Aside from the different
name, there is no change to functionality.


Revision tags: pgoyette-compat-1020 pgoyette-compat-0930 pgoyette-compat-0906 pgoyette-compat-0728 phil-wifi-base pgoyette-compat-0625 pgoyette-compat-0521 pgoyette-compat-0502 pgoyette-compat-0422 pgoyette-compat-0415 pgoyette-compat-0407 pgoyette-compat-0330 pgoyette-compat-0322 pgoyette-compat-0315 pgoyette-compat-base
# 1.8 21-Nov-2017 kre

branches: 1.8.2; 1.8.4;
Remove the -X option from SMALL shells (as used on boot floppies,
some other install media, mini-roots, etc.) It is unlikely that
such a shell will be used for much script debugging (and the old -x
still exists of course) and it adds a little bloat, so, zap...

The ancient unused (unrelated) xioctl() function is gone as well
(from all shells).


# 1.7 19-Nov-2017 kre

Implement the -X option - an apparent variant of -x which sends all trace
output to the stderr which existed when the -X option was (last) enabled.
It also enables tracing by enabling -x (and when reset, +X, also resets
the 'x' flag (+x)). Note that it is still -x/+x which actually
enables/disables the trace output. Hence "apparent variant" - what -X
actually does (aside from setting -x) is just to lock the trace output,
rather than having it follow wherever stderr is later redirected.


# 1.6 24-Jul-2017 kre

Implement the "pipefail" option (same semantics as in other shells)
to cause (when set, which it is not by default) the exit status of a
pipe to be 0 iff all commands in the pipe exited with status 0, and
otherwise, the status of the rightmost command to exit with a non-0
status.

In the doc, while describing this, also reword some of the text about
commands in general, how they are structured, and when they are executed.


Revision tags: perseant-stdc-iso10646-base
# 1.5 30-Jun-2017 kre

Implement PS1, PS2 and PS4 expansions (variable expansions, arithmetic
expansions, and if enabled by the promptcmds option, command substitutions.)


# 1.4 17-Jun-2017 kre

Changed the long name for the -L option from lineno_fn_relative
to local_lineno as the latter seemed to be marginally more popular,
and perhaps more importantly, is the same length as the peviously
existing quietprofile option, which means the man page indentation
for the list of options can return to (about) what it was before...
(That is, less indented, which means more data/line, which means less
lines of man page - a good thing!)


# 1.3 07-Jun-2017 kre

A better LINENO implementation. This version deletes (well, #if 0's out)
the LINENO hack, and uses the LINENO var for both ${LINENO} and $((LINENO)).
(Code to invert the LINENO hack when required, like when de-compiling the
execution tree to provide the "jobs" command strings, is still included,
that can be deleted when the LINENO hack is completely removed - look for
refs to VSLINENO throughout the code. The var funclinno in parser.c can
also be removed, it is used only for the LINENO hack.)

This version produces accurate results: $((LINENO)) was made as accurate
as the LINENO hack made ${LINENO} which is very good. That's why the
LINENO hack is not yet completely removed, so it can be easily re-enabled.
If you can tell the difference when it is in use, or not in use, then
something has broken (or I managed to miss a case somewhere.)

The way that LINENO works is documented in its own (new) section in the
man page, so nothing more about that, or the new options, etc, here.

This version introduces the possibility of having a "reference" function
associated with a variable, which gets called whenever the value of the
variable is required (that's what implements LINENO). There is just
one function pointer however, so any particular variable gets at most
one of the set function (as used for PATH, etc) or the reference function.
The VFUNCREF bit in the var flags indicates which func the variable in
question uses (if any - the func ptr, as before, can be NULL).

I would not call the results of this perfect yet, but it is close.


Revision tags: netbsd-8-base
# 1.2 28-May-2017 kre

branches: 1.2.2;
Redo mkoptions.sh .. much better this way, now fully automated
option sorting (no longer required option.list to be manually
sorted by long option name) and properly handles conditional
options. Cleaner output format as well.

This allows option.list to be reordered to group related options
together ... also added more comments to it.


# 1.1 28-May-2017 kre

Arrange for set -o and $- output to be sorted, rather than more
or less random (and becoming worse as more options are added.)
Since the data is known at compile time, sort at compile time,
rather than at run time.