Fedora 11 Update: ksh-20091021-1.fc11

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-11816
2009-11-20 04:25:54
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Name        : ksh
Product     : Fedora 11
Version     : 20091021
Release     : 1.fc11
URL         : http://www.kornshell.com/
Summary     : The Original ATT Korn Shell
Description :
KSH-93 is the most recent version of the KornShell by David Korn of
AT&T Bell Laboratories.
KornShell is a shell programming language, which is upward compatible
with "sh" (the Bourne Shell).

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Update Information:

- A bug in which a function loaded in a subshell could leave side effects in the
parent shell has been fixed.  - A bug in the handling of the escape character \
in directory prefixes in command completion has been fixed.  - A bug in which
unsetting SVLVL could cause a script - invoked by name without #! to core dump
has been fixed.  - A bug in which a pipeline in a here-document could hang when
the pipefail option was on has been fixed.  - A bug in which a subshell
containing a background process could block until the background process
completed has been fixed.  - A bug in the handling of the trap on SIGPIPE that
could lead to a memory fault has been fixed.  - A bug in the handling of the
comma operator in arithmetic expressions that could cause a core dump on some
systems has been fixed.  - Several memory leaks were fixed primarily related to
subshells.  - A bug in which setting the trap on CHLD to ignore could cause a
script to hang has been fixed.  - and much more....
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Nov 18 2009 Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink at redhat.com> - 20091021-1
- updated to 2009-10-21
* Thu Aug 27 2009 Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink at redhat.com> - 20090630-1
- updated to 2009-06-30
- fixes #518942
* Wed Jul 29 2009 Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink at redhat.com> - 20081212-1
- going back to 2008-12-12 because there is nothing else usable enough
- fixes #510833
* Mon May 11 2009 Michal Hlavinka <mhalvink at redhat.com> - 20090505-1
- updated to 2009-05-05
* Tue May  5 2009 Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink at reshat.com> - 20090501-2
- skip release -1 because of broken koji
* Tue May  5 2009 Michal Hlavinka <mhalvink at redhat.com> - 20090501-1
- updated to 2009-05-01
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