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From: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
To: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Cc: <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>, <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
References: <10204152346 DOT AA15316 AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Subject: Re: bash's "/dev/null: not a regular file" issue revisited
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 19:02:39 +1000
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> > 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

Bash 2.05 only build with the CVS code and as such you could try the bash
2.05 from the 2.04 page at clio. I did an update of the 2.04 files earlier
this month at clio with the updated 2.05 coide from late last month. You may
want to try this version.

Andrew