> Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2021 14:41:46 +0200
> From: Alexander Hall <[email protected]>
> I don't really see what you win either.
the point of todds diff is to fix the issue i raised:
Subject: while do done
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2021 22:20:15 +1000
From: Reuben ua Bríġ <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
you cant interrupt sh in
while do done
not that it matters.
you complained that this would break your scripts.
> Apart from inconsistency. ;-)
todd suggested dealing with your complaint by:
accepting: while :; do done
rejecting: while do :; done
i felt it would be more self-consistent to:
accept: while :; do done
accept: while do :; done
reject: while do done
if your complaint is to be worked around.
it would be even more consistent to treat any empty command list as
a list containing only the colon command
:
all throughout the shell, but this is not something i am willing to do
the work for, just to make
while do done
behave nicely.
