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| author | Peter Stephenson <pws@users.sourceforge.net> | 2010-03-16 22:44:08 +0000 |
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| committer | Peter Stephenson <pws@users.sourceforge.net> | 2010-03-16 22:44:08 +0000 |
| commit | db40de0af33e1b370009fb5e239c01c748a94ca7 (patch) | |
| tree | 045b7717db9e55b507d344e34aeb8cc220f3f45a /NEWS | |
| parent | 53745d8df0a6e00d2ddf1c08f7ea71820d587673 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a2f86722c..8fd465780 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ Note also the list of incompatibilities in the README file. Changes between versions 4.3.10 and 4.3.11 ------------------------------------------ +When the shell is invoked with the base name of a script, for example as +`zsh scriptname', previous versions of zsh have used the name directly, +whereas other shells use the value of $PATH to find the script. The +option PATH_SCRIPT has been added to provide the alternative behaviour. + The glob qualifier P can be used to add a separate word before each match. For example, *(P:-f:) produces the command line `-f file1 -f file2 ...'. @@ -14,7 +19,8 @@ match. For example, *(P:-f:) produces the command line The module zsh/system has a new "zsystem" builtin whose subcommands perform system level tasks. Currently "zsystem flock" performs advisory file locking. This is a particularly convenient way -of locking files for the length of a subshell. +of locking files for the length of a subshell. "zsystem supports flock" +provides a test for this feature. Changes between versions 4.3.9 and 4.3.10 ----------------------------------------- |