problem with builtin 'read' and standard input

[Matthew Walker]

Hi,

I'm trying to redirect data to the builtin 'read'.  I've no idea what's 
going wrong!

I believe this command
  echo "hello" | read myvar
should put "hello" into $myvar.  But $myvar is blank after execution.

If I type
  read myvar
and then type
  hello
then I get "hello" in $myvar.

What am I doing wrong?!?  Is this a bug?

I'm using Fedora Core 2.  "bash --version" returns "GNU bash, version 
2.05b.0(1)-release (i386-redhat-linux-gnu)".  I'm have the same problem 
in another system "GNU bash, version 2.05a.0(1)-release 
(i686-pc-linux-gnu)".

Totally confused,

Matthew Walker.