while loop in shell script fails under 6.2-prerelease

Today I noticed a problem with the FreshPorts email processing daemon. It’s not really a daemon. It’s a shell script. After a reboot, I noticed the script was not running. Trying the script by hand, I found this error message: .: missing filename This sample script duplicates the problem: #!/bin/sh while . do sleep 1 […]

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