read stdin in a shell function

func-stdin.txt

brennen@inertia 14:31:49 ~/fragments (master m2/u4) ▣ cat func-stdin.sh 
#!/bin/sh

myread () {
  while read foo; do
    echo "$foo";
  done
}

cat /etc/motd | myread
brennen@inertia 14:31:52 ~/fragments (master m2/u4) ▣ ./func-stdin.sh 

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