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authorJonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>2011-07-07 11:55:42 +0800
committerHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2011-07-07 12:56:32 +0800
commit66b614e29038e31745c4a5d296f64f8d64f5c377 (patch)
treebca0ac7ca1f8b2f62aa9017412976042cbccaade
parent[PARSER] Fix clobbering of checkkwd (diff)
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[EVAL] Remove unused EV_BACKCMD flag
The original ash defered forking commands in backquotes so builtins
could be run in the same context as the shell.  This behavior was
controlled using the EV_BACKCMD to evaltree.

Unfortunately, as Matthias Scheler noticed in 1999 (NetBSD PR/7814),
the result was counterintuitive; for example, echo "`cd /`" would
change the cwd.  So ash 0.3.5 left out that optimization.  The
EV_BACKCMD codepath stayed around, unused.

Some time between ash 0.3.5-11 and ash 0.3.8-37, Debian ash omitted
the EV_BACKCMD pathway by guarding it with #ifdef notyet.  In dash
0.5.1 and later, the commented code is no more.  Let's finish the job
and remove the last vestiges.  If someone wants to work on omitting
the fork in backcmd, the remaining hints are not going to be very
helpful, anyway.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Diffstat (limited to '')
-rw-r--r--ChangeLog4
-rw-r--r--src/eval.c64
2 files changed, 23 insertions, 45 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 50a8044..7367c33 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2011-04-10  Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
+ 
+	* Remove unused EV_BACKCMD flag.
+
 2011-03-15  Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
 
 	* Fix clobbering of checkkwd.
diff --git a/src/eval.c b/src/eval.c
index 426c03a..86423b4 100644
--- a/src/eval.c
+++ b/src/eval.c
@@ -68,7 +68,6 @@
 /* flags in argument to evaltree */
 #define EV_EXIT 01		/* exit after evaluating tree */
 #define EV_TESTED 02		/* exit status is checked; ignore -e flag */
-#define EV_BACKCMD 04		/* command executing within back quotes */
 
 int evalskip;			/* set if we are skipping commands */
 STATIC int skipcount;		/* number of levels to skip */
@@ -594,6 +593,9 @@ evalpipe(union node *n, int flags)
 void
 evalbackcmd(union node *n, struct backcmd *result)
 {
+	int pip[2];
+	struct job *jp;
+
 	result->fd = -1;
 	result->buf = NULL;
 	result->nleft = 0;
@@ -602,52 +604,24 @@ evalbackcmd(union node *n, struct backcmd *result)
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-#ifdef notyet
-	/*
-	 * For now we disable executing builtins in the same
-	 * context as the shell, because we are not keeping
-	 * enough state to recover from changes that are
-	 * supposed only to affect subshells. eg. echo "`cd /`"
-	 */
-	if (n->type == NCMD) {
-		struct ifsregion saveifs;
-		struct ifsregion *savelastp;
-		struct nodelist *saveargbackq;
-
-		saveifs = ifsfirst;
-		savelastp = ifslastp;
-		saveargbackq = argbackq;
-
-		exitstatus = oexitstatus;
-		evalcommand(n, EV_BACKCMD, result);
-
-		ifsfirst = saveifs;
-		ifslastp = savelastp;
-		argbackq = saveargbackq;
-	} else
-#endif
-	{
-		int pip[2];
-		struct job *jp;
-
-		if (pipe(pip) < 0)
-			sh_error("Pipe call failed");
-		jp = makejob(n, 1);
-		if (forkshell(jp, n, FORK_NOJOB) == 0) {
-			FORCEINTON;
-			close(pip[0]);
-			if (pip[1] != 1) {
-				dup2(pip[1], 1);
-				close(pip[1]);
-			}
-			ifsfree();
-			evaltreenr(n, EV_EXIT);
-			/* NOTREACHED */
+	if (pipe(pip) < 0)
+		sh_error("Pipe call failed");
+	jp = makejob(n, 1);
+	if (forkshell(jp, n, FORK_NOJOB) == 0) {
+		FORCEINTON;
+		close(pip[0]);
+		if (pip[1] != 1) {
+			dup2(pip[1], 1);
+			close(pip[1]);
 		}
-		close(pip[1]);
-		result->fd = pip[0];
-		result->jp = jp;
+		ifsfree();
+		evaltreenr(n, EV_EXIT);
+		/* NOTREACHED */
 	}
+	close(pip[1]);
+	result->fd = pip[0];
+	result->jp = jp;
+
 out:
 	TRACE(("evalbackcmd done: fd=%d buf=0x%x nleft=%d jp=0x%x\n",
 		result->fd, result->buf, result->nleft, result->jp));