Re: Infinite loop in mdate-sh

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2005-06-07 13:49:40 +0100, James Youngman wrote:
> I can't explain that.  The mdate-sh command contains no loops (at
> least at the Bource shell source level).

Yes, there is the "until" loop (really strange!).

> Can you reproduce the problem?  Can you preproduce it wile using thr
> "-x" option of /bin/sh to capture what it's doing?

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