>> >Number:         2698
>> >Category:       bin
>> >Synopsis:       sh chokes on \r's.
>> ...
>> >Fix:
>> 	From looking at the source, fix sh so that it uses a function for all
>> 	of those "is this space" commands, and then make '\r' either act
>> 	like '\n' or like '\t' - it should definitely be space, and I don't
>> 	care much whether it's a line break or a space at the end of a line.
>> 	I would probably make it like \t or ' ', so it would be less
>> 	intrusive on scripts.

>Hmm, since '\r' most often appears at the end of lines, treating
>it as either tab or space would have negative effects if the last
>real character seen was a backslash used to indicate a
>continuation of the command on the next line, no?

Oh, that's bad.

Huh.

I begin to think there's no good solution.  I intuitively object to treating
any character for which isspace() is non-zero as anything but space.
BTW, I see several places in which sh's code appears to refer to \t and ' ' as
such; shouldn't that be something like $IFS?

Perhaps what Unix needs is "text mode", in which \r's are silently ignored on
input.  (Obviously, they would not be generated on output.)

-s