On 7 October 2013 02:14, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: > The second beta release of bash-4.3 is now available with the URL > > ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/bash-4.3-beta2.tar.gz > > This tar file does not include the formatted documentation (you > should be able to generate it yourself). > > This release fixes many outstanding bugs in bash-4.2 and introduces several > new features. The most significant bug fix is the reworking of signal > handling to avoid running signal and trap handlers in a signal handler > context. This led to issues with glibc, which uses internal locks > extensively and handles longjmps from user code very poorly. > > The most notable new features are the `globasciiranges' shell option, which > forces the pattern matching code to treat [a-z] as if in the C locale; > nameref variables and the changes to allow assigning, referencing, and > unsetting them; improvements to the `direxpand' option introduced in bash-4.2 > patch 29; and allowing negative subscripts when assigning and referencing > indexed array elements. > > There is one incompatible change between bash-4.2 and bash-4.3. Bash now > performs quote removal on the replacement string in pattern substitution > (${param/pat/rep}), since the shell treats quotes as special. If you > have to quote single quotes to get them to be treated literally, the shell > should perform quote removal on them. > > `bashbug' may be used to report bugs with this version. It will send > mail to c...@po.cwru.edu if the shell's `release status' is alpha or > beta. > > As always, thanks for your help. > > Chet > > +========== CHANGES ==========+ > This document details the changes between this version, bash-4.3-beta2, and > the > previous version, bash-4.3-beta.
What happened to the patch for cd -@ to handle NFSv4+Windows alternate streams? ksh93 already has this feature since quite some time and they're now even extending support even further to the builtin POSIX commands... Ced -- Cedric Blancher <cedric.blanc...@gmail.com> Institute Pasteur
