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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 2c955e5..92af4c2 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ * Allow newlines after var name in for statements. * Use CHKNL to parse case statements. +2009-02-22 Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org> + + * Update manual page to differentiate dash from ash. + 2009-01-14 Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> * Add arith_yacc.h to dash_SOURCES. diff --git a/src/dash.1 b/src/dash.1 index 5a8e2fe..c7771d0 100644 --- a/src/dash.1 +++ b/src/dash.1 @@ -34,9 +34,9 @@ .\" .Dd January 19, 2003 .Os -.Dt SH 1 +.Dt DASH 1 .Sh NAME -.Nm sh +.Nm dash .Nd command interpreter (shell) .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm @@ -93,9 +93,6 @@ but it is not a Korn shell clone (see Only features designated by .Tn POSIX , plus a few Berkeley extensions, are being incorporated into this shell. -We expect -.Tn POSIX -conformance by the time 4.4 BSD is released. This man page is not intended to be a tutorial or a complete specification of the shell. .Ss Overview @@ -2333,11 +2330,15 @@ The process ID of the parent process of the shell. .Xr environ 7 , .Xr sysctl 8 .Sh HISTORY -A .Nm -command appeared in -.At v1 . -It was, however, unmaintainable so we wrote this one. +is a POSIX-compliant implementation of /bin/sh that aims to be as small as +possible. +.Nm +is a direct descendant of the NetBSD version of ash (the Almquist SHell), +ported to Linux in early 1997. +It was renamed to +.Nm +in 2002. .Sh BUGS Setuid shell scripts should be avoided at all costs, as they are a significant security risk. |