Bug#620421: nfs-kernel-server: init script depends on non-existent ‘/dev/tcp/’

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:36:04PM +0300, Andrew O. Shadoura wrote:
> reopen 620421
> thanks
> 
> Hello,
> 
> On Sun, 03 Apr 2011 05:29:12 +0100
> Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> > > I'm describing (actually, repeating) what was in the initial bug
> > > report for that test, modulo my misunderstanding about Bash's
> > > special treatment of that path.
> > 
> > The initial bug report contained the output from the upgrade and the
> > init script.  The init script redirects errors from the test command
> > to /dev/null because the error message is not expected to be
> > meaningful in context.  That's why I asked to run the test command
> > directly.
> 
> I confirm the bug.
> 
> # cat </dev/null >/dev/tcp/localhost/111
> -su: /dev/tcp/localhost/111: No such file or directory

Let me guess, you're using bash from 'lenny'?

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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