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[PATCH?] The here-doc that never ends



zsh -f

% true << (
>

Note the shell is now at a PS2 prompt.  The only way to escape the PS2
prompt is to type a closing paren, at which point you're at

heredoc>

But then gethere() is waiting for a single line consisting of the C
string "(\n)" which it is not possible to enter.  The only way out is
to interrupt.

Brute-force patch for this is below, but it seems like we should be
able to catch it sooner?  This appears to arise only because zsh
accepts <<(command) as well as < <(command) (note spacing).

Same effect with:

% true <<$'\n'

but there doesn't seem to be any good way to prevent that, and bash
5.0.17 behaves the same in that case.

diff --git a/Src/parse.c b/Src/parse.c
index d612b7e17..5054e59d5 100644
--- a/Src/parse.c
+++ b/Src/parse.c
@@ -2248,6 +2248,9 @@ par_redir(int *rp, char *idstring)
     struct heredocs **hd;
     int htype = type;

+    if (strchr(tokstr, '\n'))
+        YYERROR(ecused);
+
     /*
      * Add two here for the string to remember the HERE
      * terminator in raw and munged form.




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