Re: pkg/51142: pdksh has occasional issues with empty 'for' loops

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

    Date:        Sun, 15 May 2016 19:28:04 +0200
    From:        Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>
    Message-ID:  <20160515172804.GA11874%britannica.bec.de@localhost>

  | On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 05:05:00PM +0000, richard%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
  | > >Synopsis:       pdksh has occasional issues with empty 'for' loops
  | 
  | That's not a shell bug, but a "feature" of the standard.

I believe you're thinking of "for i; do" rather than "for i in; do"

It certainly looks like a bug in pdksh to me (it isn't as if it does not
have many) - certainly if that were reported against /bin/sh I would be
fixing it.

I notice the PR says that bash and ksh93 work (as they should) but says
nothing about /bin/sh.  Is there a reason for that?  (In general, unless you
want it for interactive use reasons, I'd always suggest /bin/sh on NetBSD
over /bin/ksh)

kre