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diff --git a/doc/cd.html b/doc/cd.html index c412e5e..fe64c19 100644 --- a/doc/cd.html +++ b/doc/cd.html @@ -37,10 +37,14 @@ system call on <em>dir</em>, then execs into <em>prog...</em>. <h2> Notes </h2> -<p> -<tt>cd</tt> is a standard shell builtin. Be careful if you want to -use the <tt>cd</tt> command outside of an <tt>execline</tt> script. -</p> +<ul> + <li> <tt>cd</tt> is a standard shell builtin. Be careful if you want to +use the <tt>cd</tt> command outside of an <tt>execline</tt> script </li> + <li> When execline has been configured with the <tt>--enable-pedantic-posix</tt> +option, the <tt>cd</tt> binary is actually a symbolic link to the +<a href="posix-cd.html">posix-cd</a> binary. </li> +</ul> + </body> </html> diff --git a/doc/index.html b/doc/index.html index 193f476..0a3643c 100644 --- a/doc/index.html +++ b/doc/index.html @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ shell's syntax, and has no security issues. <li> A POSIX-compliant system with a standard C development environment </li> <li> GNU make, version 3.81 or later. </li> <li> <a href="//skarnet.org/software/skalibs/">skalibs</a> version -2.9.0.0 or later. It's a build-time requirement. It's also a run-time +2.9.1.0 or later. It's a build-time requirement. It's also a run-time requirement if you link against the shared version of the skalibs library. </li> </ul> @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ library. </li> <h3> Download </h3> <ul> - <li> The current released version of execline is <a href="execline-2.5.2.0.tar.gz">2.5.2.0</a>. </li> + <li> The current released version of execline is <a href="execline-2.5.3.0.tar.gz">2.5.3.0</a>. </li> <li> Alternatively, you can checkout a copy of the <a href="//git.skarnet.org/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/execline/">execline git repository</a>: @@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ to your installation: the shebang lines for your system might be something like </p> <ul> <li><a href="cd.html">The <tt>cd</tt> program</a></li> +<li><a href="posix-cd.html">The <tt>posix-cd</tt> program</a></li> <li><a href="umask.html">The <tt>umask</tt> program</a></li> <li><a href="emptyenv.html">The <tt>emptyenv</tt> program</a></li> <li><a href="envfile.html">The <tt>envfile</tt> program</a></li> diff --git a/doc/posix-cd.html b/doc/posix-cd.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3a24602 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/posix-cd.html @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@ +<html> + <head> + <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" /> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en" /> + <title>execline: the posix-cd command</title> + <meta name="Description" content="execline: the posix-cd command" /> + <meta name="Keywords" content="execline command cd chdir posix posix-cd" /> + <!-- <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="//skarnet.org/default.css" /> --> +</head> +<body> + +<p> +<a href="index.html">execline</a><br /> +<a href="//skarnet.org/software/">Software</a><br /> +<a href="//skarnet.org/">skarnet.org</a> +</p> + +<h1> The <tt>posix-cd</tt> program </h1> + +<p> +<tt>posix-cd</tt> changes the current working directory to a +given directory, then executes a program. +</p> + +<h2> Interface </h2> + +<pre> + posix-cd <em>dir</em> <em>prog...</em> +</pre> + +<p> +<tt>posix-cd</tt> changes the current working directory to <em>dir</em> +according to the +<a href="https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/cd.html">POSIX +specification for a <tt>cd</tt> external utility</a>. Then, if <em>prog...</em> is +not empty, it execs into it. +</p> + +<h2> Notes </h2> + +<ul> + <li> <tt>posix-cd</tt> is only available when execline has been configured +with the <tt>--enable-pedantic-posix</tt> option, and in this case, the +<a href="cd.html">cd</a> binary is a symbolic link to it. </li> + <li> <tt>posix-cd</tt> fully conforms to the +<a href="https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/cd.html">POSIX +specification</a>. When <em>prog...</em> is not empty, the behaviour of a +<tt>cd</tt> utility is not specified by POSIX, so <tt>posix-cd</tt> extends +the spec to be actually useful and usable in an execline program with the same +interface as the regular execline <a href="cd.html">cd</a> command. </li> + <li> Nobody ever executes or needs the external version (i.e. not a shell +builtin) of the POSIX <tt>cd</tt> command. Compared to the regular execline +<a href="cd.html">cd</a>, <tt>posix-cd</tt> is uselessly bloated and slow. +The only reason it exists is that some distributions refuse to package +execline correctly unless it is strictly POSIX-compliant; the +<tt>--enable-pedantic-posix</tt> configure option is there to appease them. </li> +</ul> + + +</body> +</html> diff --git a/doc/upgrade.html b/doc/upgrade.html index 3191685..045803e 100644 --- a/doc/upgrade.html +++ b/doc/upgrade.html @@ -18,6 +18,16 @@ <h1> What has changed in execline </h1> +<h2> in 2.5.3.0 </h2> + +<ul> + <li> <a href="//skarnet.org/software/skalibs/"></a>skalibs</a> +dependency bumped to 2.9.1.0. </li> + <li> <tt>--enable-pedantic-posix</tt> configure option added. </li> + <li> <a href="posix-cd.html">posix-cd</a> binary added. </li> + <li> <a href="wait.html">wait</a> binary made POSIX-compliant. </li> +</ul> + <h2> in 2.5.2.0 </h2> <ul> diff --git a/doc/wait.html b/doc/wait.html index a57d28c..a092859 100644 --- a/doc/wait.html +++ b/doc/wait.html @@ -60,5 +60,15 @@ exec into <em>prog...</em>. This is the default. </li> will print an error message and exit 1. </li> </ul> +<h2> Notes </h2> + +<ul> + <li> For <a href="https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/wait.html">POSIX +compatibility</a>, <tt>wait</tt> also works when it cannot find a block. +In that case, all its command line is interpreted as <em>pids...</em> +arguments and it does not execute into a program. Instead, it exits +with a conforming exit code. </li> +</ul> + </body> </html> |