Subject: Re: bin/26207: ksh does not treat spaces in EOF here-document markers properly.
To: James Chacon <jmc@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 07/19/2004 17:07:28
On Jul 19,  4:00pm, jmc@netbsd.org (James Chacon) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: bin/26207: ksh does not treat spaces in EOF here-document mar

| According to SUSE3 this is expected behavior:
| 
| The here-document shall be treated as a single word that begins after the next
|  <newline> and continues until there is a line containing only the delimiter 
| and a <newline>, with no <blank>s in between. 
| 
| Plus, testing across a variety of shells shows this to be the behavior.
| 
| James

I agree. We should close this one. I think though we might consider opening
one that fixes /bin/sh to produce a diagnostic.

christos