Re: Infinite loop generating terminfo.5 with bash 2.05

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 02:31:19PM -0600, Samuel Mikes wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
>   I got an infinite loop while running MKterminfo.sh; read kept
> returning '.ad'.  Below is the change I made to work around it.  My
> system is:

that's odd (is it a bug in bash?  - I'm using bash 2.04 which is ok, though I
recall that early bash2's were badly broken).  Or maybe it's a problem with
the sed script that feeds it.  I'd first check to see what the sed script
produces in $unsorted, to see if that's the problem.
 
> GNU bash, version 2.05.0(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnulibc1)
> Linux kernel 2.0.36 (Slackware dist)
> 
> --- man/MKterminfo.sh~        Wed Aug 29 14:22:13 2001
> +++ man/MKterminfo.sh Wed Aug 29 14:21:08 2001
> @@ -78,9 +78,8 @@
>  rm -f $sorted
>  rm -f $temp
>  saved=no
> -while true
> +while read data

which works with "modern" sh's, but I seem to recall doesn't with very old sh's.
(perhaps I'm mistaken).

>  do
> -     read data
>       test -z "$data" && break
>       case "$data" in #(vi
>       **) #(vi
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Sam Mikes
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