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Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 12:32:39 -0700
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
CC: Olivier Perron <perron AT art DOT alcatel DOT fr>, M DOT A DOT Bukin AT ino DOT nsk DOT ru,
        djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: /dev/null problems with bash when rebuild from sources
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Olivier Perron wrote:
> 
> > Here are some results: because of the value of SYSROOT being "C:",
> > dosutil_expand_path expands /dev/null to c:/dev/null.
> > Then a call to 'open' is performed with "c:/dev/null" as first argument.
> > It is this call which fails.
> >
> > A little test program easily shows that 'stat' and 'open' effectively fail
> > with "c:/dev/null" but not with "/dev/null".
> 
> Seems like the problem is in `putpath', then.  But I thought that the
> version of `putpath' in the patched libc is already corrected.  Nate?

No, apparently it isn't.  I will add the patch, probably this afternoon.

Thanks.
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Nate Eldredge
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