busybox/shell
Denys Vlasenko 49d9e06fba libbb: modify find_executable() to not temporarily write to PATH
This allows to simplify "which" applet code

function                                             old     new   delta
find_executable                                       93     111     +18
which_main                                           191     177     -14
builtin_source                                       316     294     -22
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(add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 1/2 up/down: 18/-36)            Total: -18 bytes

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
2024-10-08 04:03:17 +02:00
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ash_test hush: do not exit interactive shell on some redirection errors 2024-07-13 02:13:28 +02:00
hush_test hush: do not exit interactive shell on some redirection errors 2024-07-13 02:13:28 +02:00
ash_doc.txt ash: fix TRACE commands 2009-03-19 23:09:58 +00:00
ash_ptr_hack.c *: make GNU licensing statement forms more regular 2010-08-16 20:14:46 +02:00
ash_remove_unnecessary_code_in_backquote_expansion.patch ash: save Ron's patch from oblivion 2021-06-06 13:01:25 +02:00
ash.c ash: cache more of uid/gid syscalls 2024-10-07 07:28:44 +02:00
brace.txt hush: wait for cmd to complete, and immediately store its exitcode in $? 2009-11-15 19:58:19 +01:00
Config.src nologin: make it possible to build it as single applet 2020-06-24 15:05:22 +02:00
cttyhack.c Update applet size estimates 2023-07-10 17:25:21 +02:00
hush_doc.txt hush: implement break and continue 2008-07-28 23:04:34 +00:00
hush_leaktool.sh hush: fix "export not_yet_defined_var", fix parsing of "cmd | }" 2009-04-19 23:07:51 +00:00
hush.c libbb: modify find_executable() to not temporarily write to PATH 2024-10-08 04:03:17 +02:00
Kbuild.src Make it possible to select "sh" and "bash" aliases without selecting ash or hush 2016-12-23 16:56:43 +01:00
match.c style fix 2022-05-01 17:06:00 +02:00
match.h hush: optimize #[#] and %[%] for speed. size -2 bytes. 2010-09-04 21:21:07 +02:00
math.c shell/math: avoid $((3**999999999999999999)) to take years 2023-07-02 19:32:12 +02:00
math.h shell/math: change ?: nesting code to not have 63 level nesting limitation 2023-06-17 11:03:02 +02:00
random.c whitespace fixes 2018-07-17 15:04:17 +02:00
random.h ash,hush: improve randomness of $RANDOM, add easy-ish way to test it 2014-03-13 12:52:43 +01:00
README update shell/README 2010-05-20 12:56:14 +02:00
README.job hush: small code shrink; style fixes 2007-04-20 08:35:45 +00:00
shell_common.c shell: move varcmp() to shell_common.h and use it in hush 2023-06-17 21:13:13 +02:00
shell_common.h shell: move varcmp() to shell_common.h and use it in hush 2023-06-17 21:13:13 +02:00

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/
Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7


http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap01.html
Shell & Utilities

It says that any of the standard utilities may be implemented
as a regular shell built-in. It gives a list of utilities which
are usually implemented that way (and some of them can only
be implemented as built-ins, like "alias"):

alias
bg
cd
command
false
fc
fg
getopts
jobs
kill
newgrp
pwd
read
true
umask
unalias
wait


http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html
Shell Command Language

It says that shell must implement special built-ins. Special built-ins
differ from regular ones by the fact that variable assignments
done on special builtin are *PRESERVED*. That is,

VAR=VAL special_builtin; echo $VAR

should print VAL.

(Another distinction is that an error in special built-in should
abort the shell, but this is not such a critical difference,
and moreover, at least bash's "set" does not follow this rule,
which is even codified in autoconf configure logic now...)

List of special builtins:

. file
: [argument...]
break [n]
continue [n]
eval [argument...]
exec [command [argument...]]
exit [n]
export name[=word]...
export -p
readonly name[=word]...
readonly -p
return [n]
set [-abCefhmnuvx] [-o option] [argument...]
set [+abCefhmnuvx] [+o option] [argument...]
set -- [argument...]
set -o
set +o
shift [n]
times
trap n [condition...]
trap [action condition...]
unset [-fv] name...

In practice, no one uses this obscure feature - none of these builtins
gives any special reasons to play such dirty tricks.

However. This section also says that *function invocation* should act
similar to special built-in. That is, variable assignments
done on function invocation should be preserved after function invocation.

This is significant: it is not unthinkable to want to run a function
with some variables set to special values. But because of the above,
it does not work: variable will "leak" out of the function.