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

From Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.unix.shell
Subject Re: [ANN] KornShell 93u+m 1.0.0-beta.2
Date 2021-12-17 09:43 +0100
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On 17.12.2021 04:38, Martijn Dekker wrote:
> Announcing: KornShell 93u+m 1.0.0-beta.2
> https://github.com/ksh93/ksh

Great, thanks!

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.

Janis

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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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