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Date:	Sun, 6 Jan 2002 15:56:08 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject:	Re: bash's 'test' is inconsistent on XP (causing autoconf testsuite failures)
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On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Tim Van Holder wrote:

> Now configure knows that some shells can't source
> /dev/null (or any other special file), and so it
> includes a test:
> 
>   if test -f $cache_file; then
>     ... source the cache file
>   fi
> 
> Unfortunately, our bash (2.05) returns 'true' for
> 'test -f /dev/null'; so it claims that /dev/null is a
> regular file and then complains it isn't.  So either
> 'test' or '.' needs fixing.

"test -f /dev/null" does TRT for me on Windows 98SE and on NT4.  So I'm 
guessing that what you see is due to a broken support for DOS devices on 
W2K and XP.  Try setting LFN=n and see if "test -f" works then.

IIRC, Charles found out that the LFN version of findfirst doesn't set the 
6th bit in the attributes for devices, and the LFN version of _truename 
doesn't return devices with a forward slash (as in "C:/NUL"), so both of 
the methods used by lstat to detect devices don't work.  We must find 
some way to work around this.

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