Mike Frysinger wrote:
> to dig up this thread yet again :)
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2006-03/msg6.html
>
> a user reported this with bash-3.0.17 with a good test case:
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/130955
>
> and i'm able to reproduce this here by setting my PS1:
> PS1='$(echo "
if you login as one user (say 'root') and then `su` to another (say 'vapier'),
the ./configure test for /dev/fd will fail ... the reason being that the node
in /dev/pts/ is owned by the user that logged in
might i suggest this change in the /dev/fd test:
[bash_cv_dev_fd=""
if test -d /dev/fd &&
