From c0966f6327d1868647d015629afd53b59bcb8dc0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Laurent Bercot Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2020 17:07:24 +0000 Subject: doc: fix URLs --- doc/dieshdiedie.html | 14 +++++++------- doc/el_substitute.html | 2 +- doc/el_transform.html | 2 +- doc/elglob.html | 2 +- doc/execline-cd.html | 2 +- doc/exitcodes.html | 4 ++-- doc/fdreserve.html | 2 +- doc/getcwd.html | 2 +- doc/grammar.html | 4 ++-- doc/index.html | 4 ++-- doc/multisubstitute.html | 2 +- doc/runblock.html | 2 +- 12 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/dieshdiedie.html b/doc/dieshdiedie.html index 9dd2313..75e660f 100644 --- a/doc/dieshdiedie.html +++ b/doc/dieshdiedie.html @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ One of the most frequent sources of security problems in programs is parsing. Parsing is a complex operation, and it is easy to make mistakes while designing and implementing a parser. (See -what Dan Bernstein says +what Dan Bernstein says on the subject, section 5.)

@@ -34,12 +34,12 @@ on the subject, section 5.) But shells parse all the time. Worse, the essence of the shell is parsing: the parser and the runner are intimately interleaved and cannot be clearly separated, thanks to the -specification. +specification. The shell performs several kinds of expansions, automatic filename globbing, and automatic word splitting, in an unintuitive order, requiring users to memorize numerous arbitrary quoting rules in order to achieve what they want. Pages -abound +abound where common mistakes are listed, more often than not leading to security holes. Did you know that "$@" is a special case of double quoting, because it will split the arguments into @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ cannot be used safely with the normalized options, because most shells come with a builtin test that does not respect the specification to the letter. And let's not get started about echo, which has its own set of problems. Rich Felker has -a page listing tricks +a page listing tricks to use to write portable shell scripts. Writing a portable script should not be that hard.

@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ you will find with execline, and it is common to every script language.

The real solution to this portability problem is a convention that guarantees fixed absolute paths for executables, which the FHS does not do. -The slashpackage convention is +The slashpackage convention is such an initiative, and is well-designed; but as with every convention, it only works if everyone follows it, and unfortunately, slashpackage has not @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ can be configured to follow the slashpackage convention. I originally wanted a shell that could be used on an embedded system. Even the ash shell seemed big, so I thought of writing my own. Hence I had a look at the -sh +sh specification... and ran away screaming. This specification is insane. It goes against every good programming @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ to wannabe sh implementors. POSIX cannot really be blamed for that: it only normalizes existing, historical behaviour. One can argue whether it is a good idea to normalize atrocious behaviour for historical reasons, as is the case with the infamous -gets +gets function, but this is the way it is.

diff --git a/doc/el_substitute.html b/doc/el_substitute.html index 84b1985..3bb56a2 100644 --- a/doc/el_substitute.html +++ b/doc/el_substitute.html @@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ you can try to do better than these people:
  • Joël Riou wrote the first execlineb quine, using only echo as non-execline external command.
    • -
  • Shortly after, Paul Jarc +
  • Shortly after, Paul Jarc wrote a much shorter quine, using echo and env as non-execline external commands. He also wrote a revised version, using only diff --git a/doc/el_transform.html b/doc/el_transform.html index f33c576..cb163a8 100644 --- a/doc/el_transform.html +++ b/doc/el_transform.html @@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ as n separate words.

    • - Netstrings are + Netstrings are a way to reliably encode strings containing arbitrary characters. execline takes advantage of this to offer a completely safe splitting mechanism. If a substitution command is given an empty diff --git a/doc/elglob.html b/doc/elglob.html index 3df2541..0870d2d 100644 --- a/doc/elglob.html +++ b/doc/elglob.html @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ another program.

    diff --git a/doc/grammar.html b/doc/grammar.html index de8f4cf..419c13e 100644 --- a/doc/grammar.html +++ b/doc/grammar.html @@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ instance, the nice command works that way: 
     nice -10 echo blah
    will read nice and -10 from the argv, change the process' nice value, then exec into the command echo blah. This is called -chain loading -by some people, and +chain loading +by some people, and Bernstein chaining by others.
  • The purpose of the environment is to preserve some state across execve() calls. This state is usually small: most programs diff --git a/doc/index.html b/doc/index.html index aa11b20..cb411a6 100644 --- a/doc/index.html +++ b/doc/index.html @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ library.

    • execline is free software. It is available under the -ISC license. +ISC license.

    Download

    @@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ to your installation: the shebang lines for your system might be something like Joël Riou. The only external command used is echo.
  • Another quine, provided by -Paul Jarc. It is much shorter, but +Paul Jarc. It is much shorter, but uses the external commands echo and env. Later, Paul rewrote it using only echo, then using only echo and the environment.
    • diff --git a/doc/multisubstitute.html b/doc/multisubstitute.html index 99994df..aebdde8 100644 --- a/doc/multisubstitute.html +++ b/doc/multisubstitute.html @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ substitutions, whereas parallel substitution pays the price only once.

    Credits

    -Paul Jarc first originated the +Paul Jarc first originated the idea of the multisubstitute command and a possible syntax.

    diff --git a/doc/runblock.html b/doc/runblock.html index b5cc65b..7e77102 100644 --- a/doc/runblock.html +++ b/doc/runblock.html @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ an execline script, using the ifte command.

    The runblock idea, as well as the ifelse idea, comes -from Paul Jarc. +from Paul Jarc.

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