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Re: [ANN] KornShell 93u+m 1.0.0-beta.2

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Op 17-12-21 om 09:43 schreef Janis Papanagnou:
> I'll have a look into the details soon, but this one irritated me;
> but maybe I just misunderstood it:
> 
>> - The 'return' command, when used to return from a function, can now
>>    return any status value in the 32-bit signed integer range, like on
>>    zsh. However, due to a traditional Unix kernel limitation, $? is
>>    still trimmed to its least significant 8 bits whenever leaving a
>>    (sub)shell environment.
> 
> If in Kornshell I terminate a process with a signal I get a number
> returned that is beyond the 8 bit range; e.g. a kill (with SIGTERM)
> results in $? evaluating to 271.

Yes, that has not changed.

If a child process of ksh's is terminated by a signal, ksh doesn't 
inherit the exit status via the kernel as that process didn't exit 
normally. Instead, ksh detects that the process was terminated by a 
signal (see 'man 2 wait' for how that works) and sets $? to the signal 
number with the 9th bit set in the current process -- which is not 
subject to the kernel's 8-bit exit status limitation as that all happens 
in the parent process.

What the announcement item above means instead is this:

$ myfunc() { return 12345; }
$ myfunc; echo $?
12345
$ (myfunc); echo $?
57
$ ksh -c 'myfunc() { return 12345; }; myfunc'; echo $?
57

i.e., the exit status of a subshell or child shell that invokes 
'myfunc', and does nothing to overwrite $? before exiting, is the least 
significant 8 bits of 12345, i.e., 12345 % 0xFF == 210.

For consistency's sake, ksh 93u+m enforces this for virtual 
(non-forking) subshells as well, because a script should never be able 
to notice a difference between a virtual subshell and a subshell that 
forked a separate process due to executing something like 'ulimit'.

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[ANN] KornShell 93u+m 1.0.0-beta.2 Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.demon.nl> - 2021-12-17 04:38 +0100
  Re: [ANN] KornShell 93u+m 1.0.0-beta.2 Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> - 2021-12-17 09:43 +0100
    Re: [ANN] KornShell 93u+m 1.0.0-beta.2 Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.demon.nl> - 2021-12-17 11:18 +0100
      Re: [ANN] KornShell 93u+m 1.0.0-beta.2 Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2021-12-17 12:50 +0000
        Arithmetic trivia (Was: [ANN] KornShell 93u+m 1.0.0-beta.2) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2021-12-17 13:10 +0000
          Re: Arithmetic trivia (Was: [ANN] KornShell 93u+m 1.0.0-beta.2) Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> - 2021-12-17 21:39 +0100
        Re: [ANN] KornShell 93u+m 1.0.0-beta.2 Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.demon.nl> - 2021-12-17 19:58 +0000
  Re: [ANN] KornShell 93u+m 1.0.0-beta.2 Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> - 2021-12-18 15:07 +0100
    Re: [ANN] KornShell 93u+m 1.0.0-beta.2 Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.demon.nl> - 2021-12-19 21:00 +0000
      Re: [ANN] KornShell 93u+m 1.0.0-beta.2 Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.demon.nl> - 2021-12-21 19:12 +0000
      Re: [ANN] KornShell 93u+m 1.0.0-beta.2 Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> - 2021-12-24 14:46 +0100

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