Funny Bash behavior

[Derek Robert Price]

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Hey all,

I've cc'd the bug-autoconf list as well as the bug-bash list - this
isn't precisely an Autoconf question, but I thought the Autoconf folks
might also have the experience to answer my question:

Running Linux 2.4.20 (actually 2.4.20-28 from RedHat) and bash 2.05b,
the following sort of setup:

touch script
chmod a+x script
cat >script <<EOF
#! /bin/sh
echo "example text"
echo ...
echo "some other text"
echo "some other text"
echo "some other text"
echo "some other text"
echo "some other text"
cat >/dev/null
EOF
./script </dev/null

Causes Bash to report about half the time an error that the parser
reached an early EOF while looking for a closing quote and sometimes
errors like "bash: ho: command not found".  If I put a "sleep 1" command
in between the cat and the ./script, I no longer see failures but this
sounds like I am just drawing out the race condition.

I actually can't get the above script to fail as I've described, but I
do have a much longer script that does something very like the above as
an internal step and I get this error very consistently.

Has anyone heard of anything like this before?

Derek

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