> > The cause of this is apparently /tmp being a textmode mount. If > > switched to binary, cat << EOF works as expected. Is that really what's > > supposed to happen? It doesn't seem right that a system configured to > > act binmode is going textmode just due to using '<< EOF' syntax. > > That sounds like a bash bug to me. The type of mount of /tmp should not > affect "heredoc"s.
For here-docs inside complex commands, bash uses /tmp to create a temporary file holding the here-doc contents. I will look into forcing bash to use binary mode on temp files - expect a new release soon (and I was just about ready to upload bash-3.1-5 when my hard drive crashed yesterday; so when I respin it, I will make sure I catch this issue. Fortunately, I did not lose very mush else). Thanks for the diagnosis of the problem! -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin bash maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
