On 1/30/06, Igor Peshansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ugh, top-posting... Reformatted. > > On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Svend Sorensen wrote: > > > On 1/30/06, Igor Peshansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. Thanks. > > > > On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Svend Sorensen wrote: > > > > > > > When I use pdksh to expand the name of a file with spaces or other > > > > shell metachars in it, the filename is expanded without escaping the > > > > metacharacters. > > > > > > Thanks for the report. I've been able to reproduce this. There's an > > > upstream patch that fixes the issue, and I'm currently working on > > > integrating that and other patches into the build to produce a new > > > release (but no ETA yet). > > > > > > > The pdksh version strings are identical. > > > > > > This is unfortunate. What is the patchlevel shown for the pdksh > > > package on NetBSD? > > > > > > FWIW, I will include the full list of patches in the README for the > > > new release. > > > > The NetBSD system I tested has pdksh-5.2.14nb1 installed. There are > > two patches in pkgsrc, one which removes a Makefile check for pdksh in > > the /etc/shells file, and one which removes a declaration of errorno. > > Other than that, it uses the vanilla pdksh-5.2.14.tar.gz sources. > > Hmm, this is extremely surprising, as 5.2.14 doesn't contain any code to > quote shell metacharacters on tab completion. Are you sure those are > vanilla sources? I know OpenBSD uses its own CVS repository for PDKSH -- > does NetBSD do this too? Can you compare the tarball with > <ftp://ftp.cs.mun.ca/pub/pdksh/pdksh-5.2.14.tar.gz>?
It turns out I was running NetBSD's base ksh, which must be a patched pdksh. I tested the version of pdksh in pkgsrc, and it has no metacharacter expansion. The pkgsrc version of pdksh uses that source tarball you mentioned. > > I have attached the patches from pkgsrc. > > These patches don't seem to do anything interesting. > > The next release of PDKSH on Cygwin will be built with a metacharacter > quoting patch (from Debian). I'd still like to investigate this to see > why it works for you on NetBSD without that patch... NetBSD must patch their stock pdksh, which would make this a feature request, not a bug report. Should NetBSD modify their base KSH_VERSION reporting to show it is patched? Thanks for your help, Igor. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
