commit 80073a271ce29ffd6bfb594bb0e03b3efd7c2453
parent 82c5cb6a55884f69963c4419368ce3891de50475
Author: Toby Goodwin <toby@paccrat.org>
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 22:09:37 +0100
update release time files
Diffstat:
6 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
-The current maintainer of rc is Toby Goodwin <toby@paccrat.org>. Please
-send all bug reports to him.
+The current maintainer of rc is Toby Goodwin <toby@paccrat.org>. Please
+send all bug reports to him, or via github:
+
+ https://github.com/rakitzis/rc/issues
This shell was written by me, Byron Rakitzis, but kudos go to Paul Haahr
for letting me know what a shell should do and for contributing certain
diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
/*
-Copyright (c) 1991, 2001, 2002, 2014, 2015 Byron Rakitzis
+Copyright (c) 1991, 1999, 2001-2003, 2014, 2015 Byron Rakitzis
This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied
warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software
in a product, an acknowledgment (see the following) in the product
documentation is required.
- Portions Copyright (c) 1991, 2001, 2002, 2014, 2015 Byron Rakitzis
+ Portions Copyright (c) 1991, 1999, 2001-2003, 2014, 2015 Byron Rakitzis
2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not
be misrepresented as being the original software.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
@@ -7,17 +7,19 @@ was removed, as this causes indigestion on file systems that don't
support sparse files (the configuration and implementation of large file
support is still present of course).
-Bug fixes. Fix for CVE-2014-1936. Broken symlinks now glob correctly.
-The variables $prompt and $version are now exported if they are
-inherited from the environment when rc starts. EIO handling is now
-enabled for readline too. A few bogosities in the history program were
-fixed. A regression introduced by the fix for the $(a.b) quoting bug was
-fixed, and that bug was correctly fixed.
+Bug fixes. Fix a use of uninitialized memory. Fix for CVE-2014-1936.
+Broken symlinks now glob correctly. The variables $prompt and $version
+are now exported if they are inherited from the environment when rc
+starts. EIO handling is now enabled for readline too. A few bogosities
+in the history program were fixed. A regression introduced by the fix
+for the $(a.b) quoting bug was fixed, and that bug was correctly fixed.
-New features. Filename completion with GNU readline now quotes special
-characters.
+New features. Added $"x as a synonym for $^x. Minimal support for
+various alternative line editing libraries. Filename completion with GNU
+readline now quotes special characters.
-Documentation. Minor updates only.
+Documentation. Licence updated to use exactly the text of the zlib-
+with-acknowledgement licence.
Toby Goodwin
-2014-09-01
+2015-04-20
diff --git a/README b/README
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-This is release rc-1.7.2.
+This is release rc-1.7.3.
See COPYING for copying information. All files are
- Copyright 1991, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2014 Byron Rakitzis.
+ Copyright 1991, 1999, 2001-2003, 2014, 2015 Byron Rakitzis.
See INSTALL for build and installation information.
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
dnl Our package name, version, ...
-AC_INIT([rc], [1.7.2])
+AC_INIT([rc], [1.7.3])
dnl ... and release date
RELDATE=`date -I`
diff --git a/rc.1 b/rc.1
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@
.if !"\\$4"" .Xf \\$2 \\$1 "\\$3\\f\\$1\\$4\\*(Xi" "\\$5" "\\$6" "\\$7" "\\$8" "\\$9"
.if "\\$4"" \\$3\fR\s10
..
-.TH RC 1 "2014-09-01"
+.TH RC 1 "2015-04-20"
.SH NAME
rc \- shell
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -1142,6 +1142,13 @@ use:
.Ds
.Cr "echo $^path."
.De
+.PP
+For compability with the Plan 9 rc,
+.Ds
+.Cr $"var
+.De
+.PP
+is accepted as a synonym for dollar-caret.
.SS "Backquote Substitution"
A list may be formed from the output of a command by using backquote
substitution:
