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mksh (53-1) unstable; urgency=medium
User-visible changes to the shell language (R53):
- Tilde expansion for HOME/PWD/OLDPWD now simplifies the PATH
- Rotation operators were renamed from <<< and >>> to ^< and ^>
- File descriptors are, once again, sole digits
These are in preparation for changes planned in R54:
- Perl-ish named file descriptors (ksh93-style) are being researched
-- Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de> Wed, 10 Aug 2016 20:40:55 +0200
mksh (52c-2exp2) experimental; urgency=low
The musl C library is now used for /bin/mksh-static and /bin/lksh
as another, i.e. third, alternative, on architectures that have it.
-- Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de> Thu, 14 Apr 2016 19:04:08 +0200
mksh (52c-2) unstable; urgency=low
The /bin/mksh-static binary may now be a symbolic link to
a binary placed under /usr – take suitable action if this
is a problem for you. In Debian, /bin/mksh should suffice
as rescue shell as glibc lives in /lib; for e.g. an initrd,
copy the binary straight from the klibc or dietlibc (your
choice) bin directory instead. Note that either is only
populated if the relevant build succeeded.
-- Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de> Tue, 12 Apr 2016 15:21:09 +0200
mksh (50f-1) unstable; urgency=low
The pdksh transitional package is gone after two full
releases – pdksh was last in oldoldoldstable.
The /bin/mksh binary no longer inspects argv[0] to enable
POSIX and kludge modes when called as sh; use mksh-static
(as sh and user shell for initrd) or lksh (as /bin/sh on
general systems) instead.
-- Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de> Sun, 19 Apr 2015 23:08:08 +0200
mksh (50-1) unstable; urgency=medium
The right-hand side of “nameref” (typeset -n) expressions
is now checked for validity. (Although, this is only fixed
for positional parameters and other special variables in
mksh 50b-1.)
The “arr=([index]=value)” syntax is gone because of severe
bugs in its implementation and regressions in other places.
It will eventually be brought back, but not right now. Use
of “set -A arr -- [index]=value” has not been historically
supported by ksh and will not be brought back in mksh either.
-- Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de> Wed, 03 Sep 2014 22:22:44 +0200
mksh (46-2) unstable; urgency=low
The mksh and mksh-static binaries no longer come with the
limited printf(1) builtin which was only added to please
a maintainer who likes to use printf while not having
/usr/bin in their script PATH. It was added to lksh, which
uses more POSIX-like arithmetics but lacks interactive
command line editing features (dash does so, too).
For this reason it’s recommended to use lksh instead of
mksh or mksh-static as /bin/sh (unless you don’t install
udev) and keep mksh around for interactive tasks (initrd
should still use mksh-static exclusively and just provide
printf(1) in /bin instead); lksh is statically linked on
platforms providing a libc that supports this use case
well and is not glibc/eglibc.
$ sudo ln -sf lksh /bin/sh
is the correct command to use for applying this change.
-- Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de> Wed, 22 May 2013 19:25:38 +0000
mksh (40.4-1~bpo50+1) lenny-backports-sloppy; urgency=medium
The debconf magic for automatically installing /bin/mksh as
/bin/sh is gone. If you want to do that, set the symlink in
/bin/sh and /usr/share/man/man1/sh.1.gz yourself, as root.
Be aware that only the latest mksh versions can safely be
used as /bin/sh since in the past after many uploads issues
regarding bugs or assumptuous maintainer or init scripts of
other packages have been found which need to be addressed
by updates of the mksh package.
-- Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de> Sat, 17 Dec 2011 21:45:04 +0000
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