PROBLEM: bash builtin read discards leading&trailing spaces

[gmott]

Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: i686
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: gcc
Compilation CFLAGS:  -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686' 
-DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-linux-gnu' 
-DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -D_GNU_SOURCE  -I.  -I. -I./include 
-I./lib -O2 -march=i386 -mcpu=i686
uname output: Linux ruby 2.4.18-27.7.x #1 Wed Mar 26 10:50:35 EST 2003 i686 
unknown
Machine Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu

Bash Version: 2.05a
Patch Level: 0
Release Status: release

Description:
bash builtin read command discards leading&trailing spaces
even when IFS is unset
this means a workaround hack is required to handle pathnames which happen
to have leading or trailing spaces

Repeat-By:
        [Describe the sequence of events that causes the problem
        to occur.]
bash-2.05a$ unset IFS
*bash-2.05a$ echo -en "    boo   hoo    \0"|{ read -rd $'\0' a;echo "<$a>";}
<boo   hoo>
*bash-2.05a$ echo -en ".   boo   hoo   .\0"|{ read -rd $'\0' a;echo "<$a>";}
<.   boo   hoo   .>