DEBUG trap and job names

Hello dear bash-bug readers, I'm quite sure I have found a micro-bug in the bash which should take about two lines of code to fix -- if you know where to put them. I tried to locate the problem myself, but the innards of bash traps remain a mystery to me. Anyway, the description is here: https

Re: DEBUG trap and job names

Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > Hello dear bash-bug readers, > > I'm quite sure I have found a micro-bug in the bash which should take > about two lines of code to fix -- if you know where to put them. I > tried to locate the problem myself, but the innards of bash traps remain > a mystery to me. Anyw

check_dev_tty - What does it do?

Here is the bash-3.1 code from general.c for check_dev_tty. It is invoked shortly after main... void check_dev_tty () { int tty_fd; char *tty; tty_fd = open ("/dev/tty", O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK); if (tty_fd < 0) { tty = (char *)ttyname (fileno (stdin)); if (tty == 0) r