Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!rivm!ccea3 From: ccea3@rivm.UUCP (Adri Verhoef) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: Bug in /bin/sh?? Message-ID: <1394@rivm05.UUCP> Date: 5 Jul 89 09:04:38 GMT References: <400@mipos3.intel.com> <12045@s.ms.uky.edu> Reply-To: a3@rivm.UUCP (Adri Verhoef) Organization: RIVM, Bilthoven, The Netherlands Lines: 7 From sh(1) of TFM of version 3.0: RESTRICTIONS If << is used to provide standard input to an asynchronous process invoked by & , the shell gets mixed up about naming the input document. A garbage file /tmp/sh* is created, and the shell complains about not being able to find the file by another name.