The following reply was made to PR bin/177674; it has been noted by GNATS.

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Subject: Re: bin/177674: /bin/sh 'while read X' loop problem
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2013 05:53:49 +0900

 At Sat, 6 Apr 2013 11:32:24 -0900 (AKST),
 Joe Public wrote:
 > OK:   while read X; do echo    $X; done < FILEWITHMP3PATHNAMES
 > OK:   while read X; do ls -l   $X; done < FILEWITHMP3PATHNAMES
 > FAIL: while read X; do mplayer $X; done < FILEWITHMP3PATHNAMES
 
 The first iteration of mplayer eats up all stdin.
 You can
 
 while read X; do mplayer $X < /dev/tty; done
 
 This is not a bug at all.
 
 -- 
 kuro
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