ndk-busybox/shell
Denys Vlasenko 098b713c7b ash: commented-out possible fix for 7694
bash has a feature: it restores termios after a successful wait for
a foreground job which had at least one stopped or sigkilled member.
The probable rationale is that SIGSTOP and SIGKILL can preclude task from
properly restoring tty state. Should we do this too?
A reproducer: ^Z an interactive python:

$ python
Python 2.7.12 (...)
>>> ^Z
    { python leaves tty in -icanon -echo state. We do survive that... }
 [1]+  Stopped                    python
    { ...however, next program (python no.2) does not survive it well: }
$ python
Python 2.7.12 (...)
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
    { above, I typed "qwerty<CR>", but -echo state is still in effect }
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'qwerty' is not defined

The implementation is modeled on bash code and seems to work.
However, I'm not sure we should do this. For one: what if I'd fg
the stopped python instead? It'll be confused by "restored" tty state.

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
2017-01-11 19:59:03 +01:00
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ash_test hush: fix a bug in argv restoration after sourcing a file 2017-01-09 08:13:21 +01:00
hush_test hush: fix a bug in argv restoration after sourcing a file 2017-01-09 08:13:21 +01:00
ash_doc.txt
ash_ptr_hack.c
ash.c ash: commented-out possible fix for 7694 2017-01-11 19:59:03 +01:00
brace.txt
Config.src ash: explicltly group ash options 2017-01-06 17:03:18 +01:00
cttyhack.c
hush_doc.txt
hush_leaktool.sh
hush.c hush: reinstate [[ builtin 2017-01-11 14:22:00 +01:00
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
match.h
math.c
math.h Make it possible to select "sh" and "bash" aliases without selecting ash or hush 2016-12-23 16:56:43 +01:00
random.c
random.h
README
README.job
shell_common.c libbb: consolidate the code to set termios unbuffered mode 2017-01-11 16:17:59 +01:00
shell_common.h

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.