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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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> From: "Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
> Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 17:42:30 +0100
> 
>  $ . /dev/null
>  bash.exe: .: /dev/null: not a regular file
> 
> Normally, this is fine, because configure first uses 'test -f' to
> ensure it IS a regular file.  Unfortunately, our bash's 'test -f'
> thinks it IS a regular file, while its '.' doesn't.

So it sounds like looking at the code in Bash which complains about
/dev/null not being a regular file we could find a way to fix lstat.