POSIX does not allow constructs like:
if cmd; then fi
{ }
Add a colon dummy command, except in a test that verifies that such empty
lists do not cause crashes when used as a function definition.
- Redirecting fds that were not open before kept two copies of the
redirected file.
sh -c '{ :; } 7>/dev/null; fstat -p $$; true'
(both fd 7 and 10 remained open)
- File descriptors used to restore things after redirection were not
set close-on-exec, instead they were explicitly closed before executing
a program normally and before executing a shell procedure. The latter
must remain but the former is replaced by close-on-exec.
sh -c 'exec 7</; { exec fstat -p $$; } 7>/dev/null; true'
(fd 10 remained open)
The examples above are simpler than the testsuite because I do not want to
use fstat or procstat in the testsuite.
This also fixes that trying to execute a non-regular file with a command
name without '/' returns 127 instead of 126.
The fix is rather simplistic: treat CMDUNKNOWN as if the command were found
as an external program. The resulting fork is a bit wasteful but executing
unknown commands should not be very frequent.
PR: bin/137659
Empty pairs of braces are represented by a NULL node pointer, just like
empty lines at the top level.
Support for empty pairs of braces may be removed later. They make the code
more complex, have inconsistent behaviour (may or may not change $?), are
not specified by POSIX and are not allowed by some other shells like bash,
dash and ksh93.
Reported by: kan
Add a reference count to function definitions.
Memory may leak if multiple SIGINTs arrive in interactive mode,
this will be fixed later by changing SIGINT handling.
PR: bin/137640
