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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 20:04:25 -0700
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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To: Olivier Perron <perron AT art DOT alcatel DOT fr>
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Subject: Re: /dev/null problems with bash when rebuild from sources
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Olivier Perron wrote:
> 
> Some weeks ago I had to rebuild bash from sources because of the
> dpmi_yield bug. (You remember Eli ?).
> With that version of bash, if I type: echo "foo" >/dev/null
> I have following error: bash: /dev/null: No such file or directory
> (ENOENT)
> 
> With the stock binary of bsh1147b.zip, there is no error.
> 
> Any ideas why I have this error ?

I haven't thought much about the possible causes of this, but you might
try using the latest patched libc from my site and rebuilding again. 
One of the patches introduced a bug which is now fixed.  I'm not sure
offhand if it is related, but it might be worth a try.

As a workaround, you can probably use `/dev/nul' (one 'l').
-- 

Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com