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-Various bits of what is known about busybox shells, in no particular order.
-
-2007-04-21
-hush: "sleep 5 | sleep 6" + Ctrl-Z + fg seems to work.
-"rm -i" + Ctrl-C, "sleep 5" + Ctrl-Z still doesn't work
-for SH_STANDALONE case :(
-
-2007-04-21
-hush: fixed non-backgrounding of "sleep 1 &" and totally broken
-"sleep 1 | sleep 2 &". Noticed a bug where successive jobs
-get numbers 1,2,3 even when job #1 has exited before job# 2 is started.
-(bash reuses #1 in this case)
-
-2007-04-21
-hush: "sleep 1 | exit 3; echo $?" prints 0 because $? is substituted
-_before_ pipe gets executed!! run_list_real() already has "pipe;echo"
-parsed and handed to it for execution, so it sees "pipe"; "echo 0".
-
-2007-04-21
-hush: removed setsid() and made job control sort-of-sometimes-work.
-Ctrl-C in "rm -i" works now except for SH_STANDALONE case.
-"sleep 1 | exit 3" + "echo $?" works, "sleep 1 | exit 3; echo $?"
-shows exitcode 0 (should be 3). "sleep 1 | sleep 2 &" fails horribly.
-
-2007-04-14
-lash, hush: both do setsid() and as a result don't have ctty!
-Ctrl-C doesn't work for any child (try rm -i), etc...
-lash: bare ">file" doesn't create a file (hush works)
+http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/
+Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7
+
+
+http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap01.html
+Shell & Utilities
+
+It says that any of the standard utilities may be implemented
+as a regular shell built-in. It gives a list of utilities which
+are usually implemented that way (and some of them can only
+be implemented as built-ins, like "alias"):
+
+alias
+bg
+cd
+command
+false
+fc
+fg
+getopts
+jobs
+kill
+newgrp
+pwd
+read
+true
+umask
+unalias
+wait
+
+
+http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html
+Shell Command Language
+
+It says that shell must implement special built-ins. Special built-ins
+differ from regular ones by the fact that variable assignments
+done on special builtin are *PRESERVED*. That is,
+
+VAR=VAL special_builtin; echo $VAR
+
+should print VAL.
+
+(Another distinction is that an error in special built-in should
+abort the shell, but this is not such a critical difference,
+and moreover, at least bash's "set" does not follow this rule,
+which is even codified in autoconf configure logic now...)
+
+List of special builtins:
+
+. file
+: [argument...]
+break [n]
+continue [n]
+eval [argument...]
+exec [command [argument...]]
+exit [n]
+export name[=word]...
+export -p
+readonly name[=word]...
+readonly -p
+return [n]
+set [-abCefhmnuvx] [-o option] [argument...]
+set [+abCefhmnuvx] [+o option] [argument...]
+set -- [argument...]
+set -o
+set +o
+shift [n]
+times
+trap n [condition...]
+trap [action condition...]
+unset [-fv] name...
+
+In practice, no one uses this obscure feature - none of these builtins
+gives any special reasons to play such dirty tricks.
+
+However. This section also says that *function invocation* should act
+similar to special built-in. That is, variable assignments
+done on function invocation should be preserved after function invocation.
+
+This is significant: it is not unthinkable to want to run a function
+with some variables set to special values. But because of the above,
+it does not work: variable will "leak" out of the function.