ksh corrupting data in a here-document section of a script at byte 8192

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Issue

  • When writing data with ksh data appears to be mangled at byte 8192
  • ksh incorrectly seeking in the input stream, leading to possible corruption in the here-document section of a script.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and 6
  • ksh package, versions bevore 20100621-16

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