# from Nicholas Clark
# on Friday 02 March 2007 08:40 am:
>On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 12:10:15PM +0100, Andreas J. Koenig wrote:
>> I hope somebody else can explain the full story. My complaint was
>> only that eof(STDIN) never returns on an open terminal STDIN
>> filehandle. Just try:
>>
>> perl -e 'print eof(STDIN)'
>>
>> and wait.
>
>Which perl version? It does return for me on 5.8.8 on FreeBSD after I
> type control-D. I believe that there was a bug related to this that
> was fix.
We do not have a "doesn't return after Ctrl+D" issue.
This is about the user not knowing that they should hit Ctrl+D.
--Eric
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