> Gag.  This may work, but only because ${LIST} can't produce zero-length
> strings.  I think the right fix is to shrug at any shells that can't
> handle it and say "fix your sh and it'll work fine".  If you can't do
> that for some reason, go ahead and add a test, but I'd much rather keep
> it out of the NetBSD sources; uglifying our code to make it portable to
> other systems (a) runs against NetBSD tradition (just look at all the
> err() and warn() calls instead of fprintf()) and (b) leads to
> maintenance nightmares after kludges to support a half-dozen different
> systems get grafted on.

POSIX.2 says that an empty list following the `in' is a syntax error.
It may be permissible as an extension.

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Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University	Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu