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Daniel Douglas edited this page Feb 24, 2023 · 8 revisions

user-visible changes between 93v- 2014-12-24 and 93u+m*

All of these sections are incomplete

Bugs in u+m with fixes in v-

  • Prefixing command doesn't de-specialize special builtins.

Bugs in v- with fixes in u+m

  • Many. Many not user visible. To do.

Features in u+m not in v-

  • typeset -g
  • .sh.{p,}pid special variables. (partial substitute for the pids builtin)
  • .sh.tilde.{set,get} disciplines.

Features in v- not in u+m

  • ~{fd} and ~{var} expansions. (undocumented)
  • __ special variable. (undocumented)
  • .sh.sig special compound variable. Exposes the siginfo_t structure. (undocumented)
  • set -K numeric and reverse sorting for various kinds of arrays or positional parameters.
  • typeset -c new=obj Like typeset -m (move) but performs an object copy from obj to new.
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