From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
To: Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com,
        Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 09:45:59 -0400
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Subject: Re: Bash 2.04 beta 5 released
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> I've found the responsible change between betas:
> 
> +static void dummy(void)
> +{
> +  __dosexec_find_on_path (0,0,0);
> +  __libc_termios_init();
> +}
> +
> Just apply this patch to old beta and the problem vanishes. But it
> still leaves a lot of room for thinking, why?

The dummy reference is required to force the modified internal libc routines 
to be linked in and dosexec.c has only been modified to fix the problems I 
reported. No changes have been made for temporary files, so why this helps I 
have no idea.

Hmm...
Mark