1 $OpenBSD: CONTRIBUTORS,v 1.10 2006/02/06 16:47:07 jmc Exp $
3 This is a partial history of this shell gleened from old change logs and
4 readmes (most of which are still in the misc directory) and the source
5 code. Hopefully it is correct and no contributors have been left out
6 (file a bug report if you spot a problem :-)).
9 * Eric Gisin (egisin@math.uwaterloo.ca), created pdksh, using
10 Charles Forsyth's public domain V7 shell as a base; also used parts
11 of the BRL shell (written by Doug A Gwyn, Doug Kingston, Ron Natalie,
12 Arnold Robbins, Lou Salkind, and others?, circa '87; the parts used in
13 pdksh included getopts, test builtin, ulimit, tty setting/getting, emacs
14 editing, and job control; the test builtin was based on code by Erik
17 Released versions: .. 3.2
18 * John R MacMillan (@yonge.csri.toronto.edu:chance!john@sq.sq.com)
19 takes over as maintainer
21 Released versions: 3.3 (?)
22 * Simon J. Gerraty (sjg@zen.void.oz.au) takes over as maintainer
24 Released versions: 4.0 .. 4.9
25 * Michael Rendell (michael@cs.mun.ca) takes over as maintainer
27 Released versions: 5.0 .. 5.2
30 * John R MacMillan (@yonge.csri.toronto.edu:chance!john@sq.sq.com), ?:
31 cleaned up configuration, many bug fixes (see misc/Changes.jrm).
32 * Simon Gerraty, (sjg@zen.void.oz.au), Nov '91..?: much improved emacs mode
33 ala at&t ksh, 386bsd port, sigaction routines for non-POSIX systems
34 (see misc/ChangeLog.sjg and misc/ReadME.sjg).
35 * Peter Collinson (pc@hillside.co.uk), July '92: added select, at&t ksh
36 style history file, original csh-style {} globbing, BSD/386 port,
38 * Larry Bouzane (larry@compusult.nf.ca), Mar '89..'93: re-wrote job control,
39 added async job notification, added CDPATH and other cd fixes, misc bug
41 * John Rochester (jr@cs.mun.ca), '87: wrote vi command line editor; various
42 bug fixes/enhancements.
43 * Jeff Sparkes (jsparkes@bnr.ca), Mar '89..Mar '90: added arrays,
44 merged John Rochester's vi code into pdksh, misc bug fixes.
45 * Michael Haardt (u31b3hs@POOL.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE), Sept '94:
46 organized man page, filled in many of its copious blank spots; added
48 * Dale DePriest (daled@cadence.com): ported to OS/2 (initially based on
49 port of pdksh4.9 to OS/2 by Kai Rommel (rommel@ars.muc.de)); maintains
50 OS/2 port; misc bug fixes.
53 * Piercarlo Grandi (pcg@aber.ac.uk), Dec '93: fixes for linux port
54 * Neil Smithline (Neil.Smithline@eng.sun.com), Aug '92: emacs-style
56 * Mike Jetzer [mlj] (jetzer@studsys.mscs.mu.edu), ?;Nov '94: fixes for vi
57 mode (see misc/Changes.mlj), added v to vi, fixes for history; fixed
58 command redoing in vi; fixes to vi globbing.
59 * Robert J Gibson: mailbox checking code that was adapted for pdksh by
61 * ? (guy@demon.co.uk), ?: promptlen() function.
62 * J.T. Conklin (jtc@cygnus.com): POSIXized test builtin; miscellaneous
64 * Sean Hogan (sean@neweast.ca): fixes for ICS 3.0 Unix, found and helped
65 fix numerous problems.
66 * Gordan Larson (hoh@approve.se): fix to compile sans VI, ksh.1 typo.
67 * Thomas Gellekum (thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de): fixes for Makefile
68 typos, fixed CLK_TCK for FreeBSD, man page fixes.
69 * Ed Ferguson (Ed.Ferguson@dseg.ti.com): fix to compile sans VI.
70 * Brian Campbell (brianc@qnx.com): fixes to compile under QNX and
71 to compile with dmake.
72 * (guy@netapp.com), Oct '94: patch to use gmacs flag.
73 * Andrew Moore (alm@netcom.com): reported many bugs, fixes.
74 * William Bader (wbader@CSEE.Lehigh.Edu): fix to compile on SCO Unix
76 * Mike Long (mike.long@analog.com): makefile fix - use $manext, not 1.
77 * Art Mills (aem@hpbs9162.bio.hp.com): bug fix for vi file completion in
79 * Tory Bollinger (tboll@authstin.ibm.com): allow ~ in vi mode to take
81 * Frank Edwards (<crash@azhrei.EEC.COM>): added macros to vi (@char).
82 * Fritz Heinrichmeyer (<Fritz.Heinrichmeyer@FernUni-Hagen.de>): fixes
83 to allow compile under Linux 1.4.3.
84 * Gabor Zahemszky (<zgabor@CoDe.hu>): SVR3_PGRP vs SYSV_PGRP, many
85 bug reports and man page fixes.
86 * Dave Kinchlea (<kinch@julian.uwo.ca>): DEFAULT_ENV patches.
87 * Paul Borman (<prb@bsdi.com>): j_exit: send HUP, then CONT; HUP fg process.
88 * DaviD W. Sanderson (<dws@ssec.wisc.edu>): patches to allow { .. } instead
89 of in .. esac in case statements.
90 * ? (<ra@rhi.hi.is>): partial patches to handle SIGWINCH for command line
92 * Jason Tyler (<jason@nc.bhpese.oz.au>): fixes for bugs in fc.
93 * Stefan Dalibor (<Stefan.Dalibor@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>): fix for
94 COLUMNS never being set in x_init().
95 * Arnon Kanfi (<arnon@gilly.datatools.com>): fix for prompt.
96 * Marc Olzheim (<marcolz@stack.nl>): patches to ifdef KSH the mail check
97 code and aliases; enum patches for old K&R compilers; handle missing dup2.
98 * Lars Hecking (<lhecking@nmrc.ucc.ie>): fixes so shell compiles as sh
100 * Bill Kish (<kish@browncow.com>): added prompt delimiter hack for
101 hidden characters (eg, escape codes).
102 * Andrew S. Townley (<atownley@informix.com>): fixes for NeXT machines:
103 get a controlling if one needed, use correct profile.
104 * Eric J. Chet (<ejc@bazzle.com>): fix for core dump in . (quitenv() called
106 * Greg A. Woods <woods@most.weird.com>: fix to make ^[_ in emacs work
108 * George Robbins <grr@shandakor.tharsis.com>: fix for sh mode to
109 keep exec'd file descriptors open.
110 * George White <gwhite@bodnext.bio.dfo.ca>: fix here-doc problem under OS/2
111 (memory allocated incorrectly).
112 * David E. Wexelblat <dwex@DataFocus.com>: fix to avoid memory overrun
113 in aresize(); fix to not print un-named options.
114 * Clifford Wolf (<clifford@clifford.at>): fix memory overrun in aresize();
115 fixed sys_siglist[] problem.
116 * Theo de Raadt (<deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>): allow ". /dev/null".
117 * Eric Youngdale (<ericy@datafocus.com>): flag field incorrectly changed
119 * Todd. C Miller (Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>): fix
120 for coredump in jobs.
121 * Kevin Schoedel <schoedel@kw.igs.net>: fix for word location in file
123 * Martin Lucina <mato@kotelna.sk>: fix for argument parsing in exit command,
124 fix for KSH_CHECK_H_TYPE.
125 * Mark Funkenhauser <mark@interix.com>: added $LINENO support.
126 * Corinna Vinschen <Corinna@Vinschen.de> and Steven Hein <ssh@sgi.com>:
127 port to cyngin environment on win95/winnt.
128 * Martin Dalecki <dalecki@cs.net.pl>: changes for 8 bit emacs mode.
129 * Dave Hillman <daveh@gte.net>: patch for bug in test -nt.