X-Authentication-Warning:	delorie.com: mailnull set sender to djgpp-workers-bounces using -f
From:	sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
Message-Id:	<10204152346.AA15316@clio.rice.edu>
Subject:	Re: bash's "/dev/null: not a regular file" issue revisited
To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Mon, 15 Apr 2002 18:46:04 -0500 (CDT)
Cc:	snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com, lauras AT softhome DOT net
In-Reply-To:	<53500112794.20020416190232@softhome.net> from "Laurynas Biveinis" at Apr 16, 2002 07:02:32 PM
X-Mailer:	ELM [version 2.5 PL2]
Mime-Version:	1.0
Reply-To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Errors-To:	nobody AT delorie DOT com
X-Mailing-List:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
X-Unsubscribes-To:	listserv AT delorie DOT com

> I still this bug with current refresh - so what was the outcome of the
> discussion in January?  I've read the relevant thread and see that a
> fix for lstat() was made.  But I don't think that lstat() is the only
> problem here, because I've seen this particular bug in win98se too. At
> that time I've tracked it to bug in bash sources and sent a fix to
> Mark. What's the status of that fix? BTW, Mark, could you please
> re-send me that fix? I managed to lose it :(

Bug in stat, fixed in CVS, not in refresh.  I have applied a fix against
2.03 and seems to work, need to refresh bash 2.04, haven't had time.
Will try and find 2.03 patch diff, busy, no promises

- Raw text -