The code contains various checks to see if a subshell needs to
fork, like this one in the ulimit builtin:
if(shp->subshell && !shp->subshare)
sh_subfork();
All checks of this form are fatally broken, as each one of them
causes shared-state command substitutions to ignore parent virtual
subshells.
Currently the only feasible way to fix this is to fork a virtual
subshell before executing a shared-state command substitution in
it. In the long term I think shared-state command substitutions
should probably be redesigned to disassociate them completely from
the virtual subshell mechanism.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/macro.c: comsubst():
- If we're in a non-subshare virtual subshell, fork it before
entering a type 2 (subshare) command substitution.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/subshell.c:
- sh_assignok(): Remove subshare fix from 911d6b06 as it's
redundant now that the parent of a subshare is never a virtual
subshell. Go back to not doing anything if the current "subshell"
is a subshare.
- sh_subtracktree(), sh_subfuntree(): Similarly, remove the
now-redundant subshare fixes from 13c57e4b.
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/xec.c: sh_exec():
- Fix a separate bug: only fork a virtual subshell before running a
background job if that "subshell" is not a subshare.
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/subshell.sh:
- Add test for bug fixed in xec.c.
- Add tests for 'ulimit', 'builtin' and 'exec' run in subshare
within subshell -- all commands that use checks of the form
'if(sh.subshell && !sh.subshare) sh_subfork();'.
Resolves: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/289
88a1f3d661