> So what you're saying is that you don't like how SunOS implements /dev/fd > and you'd like bash to override the native implementation semantics.
i don't care how sunos implements /dev/fd. i care that bash fails on sunos. bash does not do what the following quote from the bash man page says it does "If any file argument to one of the primaries is of the form /dev/fd/n, then file descriptor n is checked.". Other shells wok on sunos, though. i am willing to redo it. Which patch would you consider acceptable?