From 3241a13573dfc2adec56f1eab500359c6b0ad80f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: dana Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 12:07:22 -0500 Subject: unposted: NEWS, README: Document zsh/system changes from workers/45708 --- ChangeLog | 3 +++ NEWS | 11 +++++++++-- README | 7 +++++-- 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 4df20c334..2877c86f6 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,8 @@ 2020-04-20 dana + * unposted: NEWS, README: Document zsh/system changes from + workers/45708 + * unposted: Doc/Zsh/mod_system.yo: Adjust documentation from workers/45708 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 964e1633f..a8e7df80e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -4,8 +4,15 @@ CHANGES FROM PREVIOUS VERSIONS OF ZSH Note also the list of incompatibilities in the README file. -Changes since 5.7.1-test-3 --------------------------- +Changes since 5.8 +----------------- + +The zsh/system module's `zsystem flock` command learnt an -i option to +set the wait interval used with -t. Additionally, -t now supports +fractional seconds. + +Changes from 5.7.1-test-3 to 5.8 +-------------------------------- CVE-2019-20044: When unsetting the PRIVILEGED option, the shell sets its effective user and group IDs to match their respective real IDs. On some diff --git a/README b/README index d08440ce1..31ee80d4a 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -61,8 +61,11 @@ an end-of-options guard (same as "ls --"). The sh-compatible function definition syntax, "f() { ... }", is unchanged. -Incompatibilities since 5.7.1 ------------------------------ +The time-out (-t) value given to zsh/system's `zsystem flock` command is +now limited to 2^30-1 seconds. + +Incompatibilities between 5.7.1 and 5.8 +--------------------------------------- The history expansion !:1:t2 used to be interpreted such that the 2 was a separate character added after the history expansion. Now -- cgit 1.4.1