Sune Foldager writes: On Darwin (Mac OS X), bash incorrectly assumed that it has been called over a network connection (such as ssh, rsh etc.), when stdin stems from the pipe() system call. This is because bash's heuristic code for determining if it's been started over a net connection is incorrect on Darwin kernels. http://bugs.gentoo.org/79124 --- a/lib/sh/netconn.c +++ b/lib/sh/netconn.c @@ -53,7 +53,8 @@ l = sizeof(sa); rv = getpeername(fd, &sa, &l); /* Solaris 2.5 getpeername() returns EINVAL if the fd is not a socket. */ - return ((rv < 0 && (errno == ENOTSOCK || errno == EINVAL)) ? 0 : 1); + /* Darwin 7.7.0 getpeername() returns ENOTCONN if the fd was created with pipe(). */ + return ((rv < 0 && (errno == ENOTSOCK || errno == ENOTCONN || errno == EINVAL)) ? 0 : 1); #else /* !HAVE_GETPEERNAME || SVR4_2 || __BEOS__ */ # if defined (SVR4) || defined (SVR4_2) /* Sockets on SVR4 and SVR4.2 are character special (streams) devices. */