Jacob Beacham writes:
> I'm sorry, I didn't know where else to send this, but this is driving me
> crazy, too, and I've figured it all out.
>
> The udev init script parses links.conf and checks to see if each target
> exists before creating it, using [. The problem is that bash uses its
> own builtin [ instead of the /usr/bin/[ binary, and it's reporting
> /dev/std{in,out,err} as existing when they do not.
>
> The reason for this is found very easily in bash_3.0-16.diff, where the
> debian package differs from the original source by checking the file
> descriptor instead of the file itself if the file in question is one of
> /dev/stdin, stdout, or stderr. Of course the file descriptor will
> exist, but in this case, the files themselves do not, and their creation
> is simply skipped over.
>
> I'm not sure who wants to back down, either the bash maintainer by
> removing this code, or the udev maintainer by manually hardcoding
> /usr/bin/[ for the file tests, but something needs to be done.
please avoid the ranting, nobody needs to back down. A concise hint
would even help more.
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