i have a small bit of code in a function:
foo() {
local f
for f in src/assembler.S src/assembler_opt.S ; do
cat <<-EOF >> ${f}
#ifdef __ELF__
.section .note.GNU-stack,"",%progbits
#endif
EOF
done
}under bash-4.0_p37 and bash-4.1_p2, the first file is correctly appended but the second is not. using bash-3.2_p50 and i get correct behavior -- both files are appended. we're seeing this on a bunch of different Gentoo systems. i'm having a hard time debugging this because as soon as i stick any statement inside the for loop (before or after), both files are updated with bash-4.x. for example, simply adding a `:` or an `echo` before the cat. when i strace bash, i see both files being opened, set to stdout, and then cat executed, but only in the first file (src/assembler.S) does there appear to be any data waiting for cat on stdin. the second file's cat reads stdin and gets back 0 bytes. trying to debug the bash source itself is a bit beyond me though ... -mike
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