[issue21999] shlex: bug in posix more handling of empty strings

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[issue21999] shlex: bug in posix more handling of empty strings

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[issue21999] shlex: bug in posix more handling of empty strings

New submission from Martin Morrison: Minimal testcase of the problem situation is tokenising (with posix mode on): ''), Specifically, an empty string, followed by a non-word character, followed by a non-space character. In this case, the token buffer is empty and due to a missing check for