> > Agreed on both accounts -- I detest open loop solutions myself.
> > I was going to suggest the retry strategy, but I wasn't sure that such a
> > patch would be accepted at this time. How should I proceed?
>
> Code up a patch, test it, send in a diff ... I think the only real risk
> here is to be careful not to write anything unportable. I believe that
> "until" loops exist even in very old Bourne shells, does anyone think
> differently?
Probably true, but I have never seen 'until' used in a script.
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