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| author | Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> | 1997-06-05 14:59:13 +0000 |
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| committer | Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> | 2009-09-12 16:46:50 +0000 |
| commit | d166f048818e10cf3799aa24a174fb22835f1acc (patch) | |
| tree | 1ca27f9243900f8b236d0cde6a3862002aea9e19 /COMPAT | |
| parent | ccc6cda312fea9f0468ee65b8f368e9653e1380b (diff) | |
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Imported from ../bash-2.01.tar.gz.
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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ This document details the incompatibilites between this version of bash, -bash-2.0, and the previous version, bash-1.14. These were discovered -by alpha and beta testers, so they will likely be encountered by a -significant number of users. +bash-2.01, and the previous widely-available version, bash-1.14. These +were discovered by alpha and beta testers, so they will likely be +encountered by a significant number of users. 1. Bash now uses a new quoting syntax, $"...", to do locale-specific string translation. Users who have relied on the (undocumented) @@ -71,8 +71,33 @@ significant number of users. command_oriented_history, glob_dot_filenames, allow_null_glob_expansion, nolinks, hostname_completion_file, noclobber, no_exit_on_failed_exec, and cdable_vars. Most of them are now implemented with the new `shopt' - builtin; others were already implemented by `set'. + builtin; others were already implemented by `set'. Here is a list of + correspondences: + + MAIL_WARNING shopt mailwarn + notify set -o notify + history_control HISTCONTROL + command_oriented_history shopt cmdhist + glob_dot_filenames shopt dotglob + allow_null_glob_expansion shopt nullglob + nolinks set -o physical + hostname_completion_file HOSTFILE + noclobber set -o noclobber + no_exit_on_failed_exec shopt execfail + cdable_vars shopt cdable_vars + +8. `ulimit' now sets both hard and soft limits and reports the soft limit + by default (when neither -H nor -S is specified). This is compatible + with versions of sh and ksh that implement `ulimit'. The bash-1.14 + behavior of, for example, + + ulimit -c 0 + + can be obtained with + + ulimit -S -c 0 + + It may be useful to define an alias: + + alias ulimit="ulimit -S" -8. The `ulimit' builtins now sets both hard and soft limits and reports the - soft limit by default (when neither -H nor -S is specified). This is - compatible with versions of sh and ksh that implement `ulimit'. |