On 8/31/13 3:13 PM, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.2
> Patch Level: 45
> Release Status: release
>
> When called with the -N option, "read" seems to consider the byte 0xFF
> as meaning EOF (well, not exactly since it doesn't set the exit status to
> non-zero)
Not quite: it interprets that as satisfying the delimiter, since the delim
is set to -1. It needs to test an additional flag. I've made that fix,
and the fix will be in bash-4.3.
Chet
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