Mini Shell

1.04 Sat Jul 13 10:08:08 BST 2019

  Bug fixes:
  - Fixed usage of setsid()

1.02 Thu May  3 09:42:15 BST 2018

  Bug fixes:
  - Resolve RT #118424 can't use IPC::Cmd->run_forked in the first process of a container
  - Make fix for RT #91784 only apply to HPUX

1.00 Wed Feb 14 16:14:01 GMT 2018

  Bug fixes:
  - Resolve RT #91784  'run_forked("/usr/bin/echo test") captures no output'
  - Resolve RT #124415 'The 03_run_forked.t test fails (sometimes) on HPUX'

0.98 Fri May 12 17:00:07 BST 2017

  Enhancements:
  * Added wait_loop_callback for run_forked()

  Bug fixes:
  * Only search in curdir in can_run() when on Win32
    RT#105601

0.96 Thu Jul 28 11:17:12 BST 2016

  Bug fixes:
  * Require Module::Load::Conditional 0.66 to resolve
    CVE-2016-1238: avoid loading optional modules from default .

0.94 Fri Feb 12 18:55:05 GMT 2016

  Bug fixes:
  * move __END__ above POD in documentation (plicease)
  * Don't clobber $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} in open3_run() (avar)
  * Fix 'terminate_on_signal' segfaulting (Petya Kohts)
  * Fix usage of fcntl(..., F_GETFL, ...) (tonyc)

0.92 Wed Jan 22 19:57:27 GMT 2014

  Test fixes:
  * Use File::Temp in run_forked tests (hugmeir)

0.90 Mon Nov 18 15:08:15 GMT 2013

  Misc:
  * skip some problematic tests when PERL_CORE

0.88 Fri Nov 15 14:44:03 GMT 2013

  Misc:
  * skip some problematic tests on Cygwin

0.86 Mon Nov  4 14:09:42 GMT 2013

  Bug fixes:
  * run_forked: workaround absent CLOCK_MONOTONIC on OSX (Petya Kohts)
  * RT#89770 Patch to fix error reporting if command killed by signal
    (Ed Avis)
  * Make the false test more forgiving, for Solaris and other SVR*
    (bingos)

0.85_02 Thu Oct 10 13:59:34 BST 2013

  Bug Fixes:
  * run_forked: incomplete output more than buffer size

0.85_01 Thu Sep  5 20:30:51 BST 2013

  Enhancements:
  * run_forked() now uses Time::HiRes and Carp

0.84    Tue Aug  6 10:03:03 BST 2013

  Enhancements:
  * Lowered CPU usage for run_forked() (Petya Kohts)

  Bug Fixes:
  * RT#85912 Handle STDOUT/STDERR for run_forked()
    and coderefs (Petya Kohts)
  * RT#76901 fixed regression introduced in 0.78
    (Petya Kohts)
  * RT#70530 run_forked() now has a consistent
    API with run() (Petya Kohts)
  * Socket only used where needed (bingos)

  Misc:
  * Install into sitelib if >= v5.12.0

0.82    Sat Jun 29 22:11:22 BST 2013

* Typo fixes (David Steinbrunner)

0.80    Sat Mar  2 22:03:49 GMT 2013

* Use File::Spec->path instead of relying on
  Config (William Orr)

0.78    Mon Apr 30 19:45:00 BST 2012

* Use POSIX::_exit() instead of exit() in
  run_forked(). Reported by Mithun Ayachit
  [RT 76901]

0.76    Mon Jan 30 11:30:53 GMT 2012

* Make the empty arg stripping the default again,
  with option to override this behaviour.

0.74    Mon Jan 30 10:24:30 GMT 2012

* Applied patch from WATANABE Hiroaki [RT #74470]
  "Empty string cannot be passed to command"
* Resolved [RT #74373] reported by Randy Stauner
  "Compilation error when POSIX.pm fails to load"

0.72    Wed Jun 22 12:29:59 BST 2011

* Added IPC::Open3 support for capturing STDOUT/STDERR
  on MSWin32, prefer this over IPC::Run

0.70    Mon Jan 31 20:34:09 GMT 2011

* Apply a patch from Petya Kohts, RT #65276, with
  run_forked:

  1) fix for the typo in the name of the signal
  2) changed default for clean_up_children (which
     seems to be the behavior expected by the majority of the users)
  3) added detection (and forwarding to the caller) of the case
     when run program is killed by signal
  4) kill_gently is now used in cases when parent died
     and when the executed program times out
  5) added options which allow to execute some user code
     in the beginning and at the end of the child

0.68    Fri Jan  7 21:08:58 GMT 2011

* Apply blead patch from Peter Acklam

0.66    Tue Nov 23 12:10:24 GMT 2010

* Apply documentation patch from Dan Dascalescu [RT # 63250]
* Apply another documentation patch from Dan Dascalescu [RT #63251]
* Fix an issue with _split_like_shell_win32() raised by tunakermit [RT #62961]

0.64    Tue Oct 19 19:01:05 BST 2010

* Only enable the can_run instances behaviour when 
  global variable $INSTANCES is set

0.62    Tue Oct 19 15:51:30 BST 2010

* Amended can_run behaviour to run all found instances
  of the given binary in a list context

0.60    Mon Jul  5 09:04:54 BST 2010

* Corrected spelling mistakes in POD, spotted by H.Merijn Brand
* Apply a patch from Burak Gursoy RT #58886, which fixes paths 
  on MSWin32
* Apply patch from Petya Kohts, RT #50398, which allows more
  flexible configuration of run_forked and its children

0.58    Thu Apr 29 20:49:07 BST 2010

* Applied patch from Petya Kohts, RT #50398, which
  adds 'terminate_on_parent_sudden_death' option to
  run_forked().
* Applied patches from David Morel RT #56973, which
  add 'discard_output' option to run_forked().
* Added documentation as suggested by Rafaël Garcia-Suarez
  in RT #56973

0.56    Wed Feb  3 14:17:00 GMT 2010

* Applied patch from Petya Kohts, RT #50398, which 
  updates run_forked() to allow coderefs

0.54    Sun Nov 15 21:43:51 GMT 2009

* Fixed issues on older perls requiring Time::HiRes

0.52    Fri Nov 13 16:15:11 GMT 2009

* Added documentation for run_forked()

0.51_01 Sun Nov  8 22:36:33 GMT 2009

* Apply patch from Petya Kohts, RT #50398, which adds
  run_forked()

0.50    Mon Sep  7 16:17:32 BST 2009

* Apply patch from Steve Hay that fixes a test failure in
  core since the move from lib/ to ext/ [RT #49490]

0.48    Mon Sep  7 15:12:43 BST 2009

* Apply a patch from Vincent Pit to fix warnings when undefined 
  values are provided in the command list [RT #48868]

0.46    Fri Jun 12 13:40:09 UTC 2009

* Apply patch from Craig Berry to quote arguments correctly
  on VMS. See RT #46288 for details.
  Non-VMS users need not upgrade

0.44    Mon May  4 10:13:19 CEST 2009

* Apply core patch to silence diagnostics during perl 
  core tests. Users of 0.42 need not upgrade.

0.42    Fri Oct 10 11:42:28 CEST 2008

* Promote 0.41_07 to stable as it passes tests on all
  CPAN Testers platforms now. 

0.41_07 Sun Oct  5 18:18:15 CEST 2008

* This release addresses issues for Win32 commands using quoted
  strings containing whitespace. Non Win32 users need not upgrade.
* Copy in Module::Build::Platform::Windows->split_like_shell, as 
  Text::ParseWords::shelwords() uses UNIX semantics, which breaks on
  Win32. Now IPC:Cmd uses ->split_like_shell on Win32, and shellwords()
  on a UNIX like platform.
* Export QUOTE and add docs for it to allow users to pick a platform
  agnostic quote character.
* Utility functions to check for ipc::run and ipc::open3 presence
  now return their respective version
* Use '"' (double quote) as quote character in all the whitespace tests 
  -- they only contain constants
* Improved diagnostics in test suite, so it's easier to see what
  configuration failed from a single line of test output
* Disable gzip test in production releases

0.41_06 Wed Sep 24 17:03:14 CEST 2008

* Add missing source file for tests. Users of 0.41_05
  need not upgrade.

0.41_05 Mon Sep 22 14:22:45 CEST 2008

* Address whitespace issues in commands: if the full command 
  contains special chars (ie, <,>,|,&) it needs to be stringified 
  for system() and ipc::open3 or the special chars are escaped
  as arguments to the command. So, if you pass an arrayref as
  command, we'll stringify it.
  Of course that conflicts with arguments containing whitespace, 
  so if we need to stringify we'll also attempt to fixup any 
  arguments that have whitespace with the OS specific quote.
* Added tests for pipes, whitespace and pipes + whitespace to make
  sure our fix works
* Documentation on whitespace updated accordingly.

0.41_04 Mon Jul 14 15:54:57 CEST 2008

* Forgot to add new test file. Users of 0.41_03 
  need not to upgrade.

0.41_03 Sun Jul 13 14:59:44 CEST 2008

* Address #36365: IPC::Cmd error reporting by adding extra
  diagnostics on failure and pretty printing of errors
* Fix the issue that caused many testers failures:
  When _ipc_open3_run is interrupted by an alarm, the FDs were
  not being restored, causing subsequent processes to not have
  access to STDIN.
* Add more diagnostics to 01.t
* Add tests for interleaving stdout/stderr, which are now TODO
  Record this as #37532: Unable to interleave STDOUT and STDERR
  Mention this in the Caveats sections of the docs

0.41_02 Sun Jun 29 17:38:47 CEST 2008

* Implement timeouts for commands (#36437)

0.41_01 Sun Apr  6 14:10:17 CEST 2008

* Strip empty whitespace from array ref commands -- some 
  commands can't deal with an empty argument after (like 
  make) and will exit with an error because of it
* Address 29532, 29723 and 32187 which all have issues 
  with using arguments containing whitespace. IPC::Cmd 
  can now deal with arguments with whitespace properly
  using IPC::Run, Open3 and system.
  Tests are added for this.
* Apply patch from John M. ipc::open3 does not work on 
  OpenVMS because it claims that it needs fork().
* Merge the 2 test routines for stdout/stderr tests by 
  making the buffer to inspect a variable
  
0.40    Wed Oct 17 10:57:11 CEST 2007

* Promote 0.39_01 to stable. Users who already have
  0.38 installed do not need to upgrade. This is merely
  a test suit portability fix for perl 5.005

0.39_01 Tue Oct 16 10:59:35 CEST 2007

* Address test failure on 5.00505 by using 2-arg
  version of open, instead of 3-arg version.

0.38    Thu Oct 11 17:04:28 CEST 2007

* Address perlbug [perl #46293] IPC::Cmd can lose stderr 
* Apply [perl #46111] [PATCH] Add tests for stderr-only 
  in IPC::Cmd to test for that bug
  
0.36    Fri Nov 24 14:55:56 CET 2006

* 3-arg open doesn't work on 5.6.2 properly, so we changed
  to the 2-arg form of open. This to avoid errors as seen
  in this report:
  http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/363646

0.34    Fri Oct 20 15:13:23 CEST 2006

* use Carp::carp explicitly

0.32    Fri Oct 13 13:08:23 CEST 2006

* Fix logic to detect IPC::Open3 usability on various platforms
* Propogate the programs exit code properly when using IPC::Open3
* Make IPC::Run a dependency on request

0.30    Wed Oct 11 13:00:40 CEST 2006

* 0.29_01 upgraded to stable.

0.29_01 Thu Oct  5 16:34:44 CEST 2006

* Rework IPC::Cmd heavily to work better on win32
* Add $WARN as global variable
* Pass parents STDOUT/STDERR to IPC::Open3 to attach STDOUT/STDERR to
  the current tty. This doesn't support capturing buffers, but there
  seems no way to do this, without using Win32::* modules.
	 
0.25    Wed Sep  6 17:32:18 CEST 2006

* Add proper interactive support for IPC::Open3
  Thanks to James Mastros and Martijn van de
  Streek
* Add an interactive test file for this support
  (skipped under Test::Harness)