tamentis / ksh

Port of the OpenBSD ksh shell

ksh port

This is my port of the OpenBSD ksh shell for all my machines not running OpenBSD.

Barely compiles and kinda runs (thanks to many ugly hacks) on:

• macOS (tested on 10.13, 10.14)
• Linux (tested on Ubuntu 18.04)

Installation

Homebrew on macOS

Just do it, you know you want to:

$ brew install tamentis/core/openbsd-ksh

Ubuntu

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install make gcc libc-dev ncurses-dev

Then continue with the generic instructions below.

Centos

$ sudo yum install gcc make ncurses-devel

Then continue with the generic instructions below.

Unix-y, from source

$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

What's missing

• There is no call to pledge(), since it does not exist outside of OpenBSD.
• This package will not install ksh as sh replacement, neither will it install the corresponding sh man page, this is not intended as a system shell.

Changelog

6.5

• Bound ^L (ctrl-l) to clear the screen rather than redrawing.
• Addressed inconsistent behavior when evaluating arithmetical expressions.
• Skip most of the mail check if MAIL is not set.
• Fixed the case where the recursion detection isn't reset when the command is interrupted.

6.4

• Support 64 bit integers on 32 bit architectures.

6.3

• Memory allocation was switched from calloc(3) back to malloc(3), making it easier to recognize uninitialized memory. As a result, a history-related bug in emacs editing mode was discovered and fixed.

6.2

• Improved UTF-8 line editing support for Emacs and Vi input mode.

6.1

• Partial UTF-8 line editing support for Vi input mode.

6.0

• Improve various details of POSIX compliance.

5.9

• Partial support for inserting and deleting UTF-8 characters in emacs command line editing mode.

Disclaimer

I cannot be held responsible for whatever damage is done to your system from using that code. It is provided AS IS, with NO WARRANTY, either expressed or implied.

Refresh

Via CVS:

1. clone the repo for whatever branch you want:

$ cvs -d [email protected]:/cvs co -rOPENBSD_6_3 src/bin/ksh

2. hack away, diff, incorporate
3. pull request?

Via the GitHub clone:

1. Clone the clone:

git clone https://github.com/openbsd/src

2. Export the patches one by one, edit the path, import:

$ git format-patch -1 --stdout e2d3b05ea4601a... > /tmp/patch
$ vim /tmp/patch
$ git am /tmp/patch

ksh's Issues

mknod.c major/minor compile erros on Fedora

I compiled this on Fedora 32 (new install) and found the below compile errors. The patch following the errors resolved them.

mknod.c:69:6: error: called object ‘major’ is not a function or function pointer
69 | if (major(dev) != major || minor(dev) != minor) {
| ^~~~~
mknod.c:47:8: note: declared here
47 | u_int major, minor;
| ^~~~~
mknod.c:69:29: error: called object ‘minor’ is not a function or function pointer
69 | if (major(dev) != major || minor(dev) != minor) {
| ^~~~~
mknod.c:47:15: note: declared here
47 | u_int major, minor;
| ^~~~~

This patch resolved them.
$ git diff
diff --git a/src/mknod.c b/src/mknod.c
index 2e336a7..1092d36 100644
--- a/src/mknod.c
+++ b/src/mknod.c
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
+#include <sys/sysmacros.h>
#include <errno.h>

#include "sh.h"