1 This is a partial history of this shell gleened from old change logs and
2 readmes (most of which are still in the misc directory) and the source
3 code. Hopefully it is correct and no contributors have been left out
4 (file a bug report if you spot a problem :-)).
7 * Eric Gisin (egisin@math.uwaterloo.ca), created pdksh, using
8 Charles Forsyth's public domain V7 shell as a base; also used parts
9 of the BRL shell (written by Doug A Gwyn, Doug Kingston, Ron Natalie,
10 Arnold Robbins, Lou Salkind, and others?, circa '87; the parts used in
11 pdksh included getopts, test builtin, ulimit, tty setting/getting, emacs
12 editing, and job control; the test builtin was based on code by Erik
15 Released versions: .. 3.2
16 * John R MacMillan (@yonge.csri.toronto.edu:chance!john@sq.sq.com)
17 takes over as maintainer
19 Released versions: 3.3 (?)
20 * Simon J. Gerraty (sjg@zen.void.oz.au) takes over as maintainer
22 Released versions: 4.0 .. 4.9
23 * Michael Rendell (michael@cs.mun.ca) takes over as maintainer
25 Released versions: 5.0 .. 5.2
28 * John R MacMillan (@yonge.csri.toronto.edu:chance!john@sq.sq.com), ?:
29 cleaned up configuration, many bug fixes (see misc/Changes.jrm).
30 * Simon Gerraty, (sjg@zen.void.oz.au), Nov '91..?: much improved emacs mode
31 ala at&t ksh, 386bsd port, sigaction routines for non-POSIX systems
32 (see misc/ChangeLog.sjg and misc/ReadME.sjg).
33 * Peter Collinson (pc@hillside.co.uk), July '92: added select, at&t ksh
34 style history file, original csh-style {} globbing, BSD/386 port,
36 * Larry Bouzane (larry@compusult.nf.ca), Mar '89..'93: re-wrote job control,
37 added async job notification, added CDPATH and other cd fixes, misc bug
39 * John Rochester (jr@cs.mun.ca), '87: wrote vi command line editor; various
40 bug fixes/enhancements.
41 * Jeff Sparkes (jsparkes@bnr.ca), Mar '89..Mar '90: added arrays,
42 merged John Rochester's vi code into pdksh, misc bug fixes.
43 * Michael Haardt (u31b3hs@POOL.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE), Sept '94:
44 organized man page, filled in many of its copious blank spots; added
46 * Dale DePriest (daled@cadence.com): ported to OS/2 (initially based on
47 port of pdksh4.9 to OS/2 by Kai Rommel (rommel@ars.muc.de)); maintains
48 OS/2 port; misc bug fixes.
51 * Piercarlo Grandi (pcg@aber.ac.uk), Dec '93: fixes for linux port
52 * Neil Smithline (Neil.Smithline@eng.sun.com), Aug '92: emacs-style
54 * Mike Jetzer [mlj] (jetzer@studsys.mscs.mu.edu), ?;Nov '94: fixes for vi
55 mode (see misc/Changes.mlj), added v to vi, fixes for history; fixed
56 command redoing in vi; fixes to vi globbing.
57 * Robert J Gibson: mailbox checking code that was adapted for pdksh by
59 * ? (guy@demon.co.uk), ?: promptlen() function.
60 * J.T. Conklin (jtc@cygnus.com): POSIXized test builtin; miscellaneous
62 * Sean Hogan (sean@neweast.ca): fixes for ICS 3.0 Unix, found and helped
63 fix numerous problems.
64 * Gordan Larson (hoh@approve.se): fix to compile sans VI, ksh.1 typo.
65 * Thomas Gellekum (thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de): fixes for Makefile
66 typos, fixed CLK_TCK for FreeBSD, man page fixes.
67 * Ed Ferguson (Ed.Ferguson@dseg.ti.com): fix to compile sans VI.
68 * Brian Campbell (brianc@qnx.com): fixes to compile under QNX and
69 to compile with dmake.
70 * (guy@netapp.com), Oct '94: patch to use gmacs flag.
71 * Andrew Moore (alm@netcom.com): reported many bugs, fixes.
72 * William Bader (wbader@CSEE.Lehigh.Edu): fix to compile on SCO Unix
74 * Mike Long (mike.long@analog.com): makefile fix - use $manext, not 1.
75 * Art Mills (aem@hpbs9162.bio.hp.com): bug fix for vi file completion in
77 * Tory Bollinger (tboll@authstin.ibm.com): allow ~ in vi mode to take
79 * Frank Edwards (<crash@azhrei.EEC.COM>): added macros to vi (@char).
80 * Fritz Heinrichmeyer (<Fritz.Heinrichmeyer@FernUni-Hagen.de>): fixes
81 to allow compile under Linux 1.4.3.
82 * Gabor Zahemszky (<zgabor@CoDe.hu>): SVR3_PGRP vs SYSV_PGRP, many
83 bug reports and man page fixes.
84 * Dave Kinchlea (<kinch@julian.uwo.ca>): DEFAULT_ENV patches.
85 * Paul Borman (<prb@bsdi.com>): j_exit: send HUP, then CONT; HUP fg process.
86 * DaviD W. Sanderson (<dws@ssec.wisc.edu>): patches to allow { .. } instead
87 of in .. esac in case statements.
88 * ? (<ra@rhi.hi.is>): partial patches to handle SIGWINCH for command line
90 * Jason Tyler (<jason@nc.bhpese.oz.au>): fixes for bugs in fc.
91 * Stefan Dalibor (<Stefan.Dalibor@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>): fix for
92 COLUMNS never being set in x_init().
93 * Arnon Kanfi (<arnon@gilly.datatools.com>): fix for prompt.
94 * Marc Olzheim (<marcolz@stack.nl>): patches to ifdef KSH the mail check
95 code and aliases; enum patches for old K&R compilers; handle missing dup2.
96 * Lars Hecking (<lhecking@nmrc.ucc.ie>): fixes so shell compiles as sh
98 * Bill Kish (<kish@browncow.com>): added prompt delimiter hack for
99 hidden characters (eg, escape codes).
100 * Andrew S. Townley (<atownley@informix.com>): fixes for NeXT machines:
101 get a controlling if one needed, use correct profile.
102 * Eric J. Chet (<ejc@bazzle.com>): fix for core dump in . (quitenv() called
104 * Greg A. Woods <woods@most.weird.com>: fix to make ^[_ in emacs work
106 * George Robbins <grr@shandakor.tharsis.com>: fix for sh mode to
107 keep exec'd file descriptors open.
108 * George White <gwhite@bodnext.bio.dfo.ca>: fix here-doc problem under OS/2
109 (memory allocated incorrectly).
110 * David E. Wexelblat <dwex@DataFocus.com>: fix to avoid memory overrun
111 in aresize(); fix to not print un-named options.
112 * Clifford Wolf (<clifford@clifford.at>): fix memory overrun in aresize();
113 fixed sys_siglist[] problem.
114 * Theo de Raadt (<deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>): allow ". /dev/null".
115 * Eric Youngdale (<ericy@datafocus.com>): flag field incorrectly changed
117 * Todd. C Miller (Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>): fix
118 for coredump in jobs.
119 * Kevin Schoedel <schoedel@kw.igs.net>: fix for word location in file
121 * Martin Lucina <mato@kotelna.sk>: fix for argument parsing in exit command,
122 fix for KSH_CHECK_H_TYPE.
123 * Mark Funkenhauser <mark@interix.com>: added $LINENO support.
124 * Corinna Vinschen <Corinna@Vinschen.de> and Steven Hein <ssh@sgi.com>:
125 port to cyngin environment on win95/winnt.
126 * Martin Dalecki <dalecki@cs.net.pl>: changes for 8 bit emacs mode.
127 * Dave Hillman <daveh@gte.net>: patch for bug in test -nt.