The following reply was made to PR pkg/29791; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jussi Liukkonen <jussi.liukkonen@snorkkeli.homeip.net>
To: Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org>
Cc: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net>, gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: pkg/29791
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 02:58:01 +0300

 Hi,
 
 actually I have the same patches only in the freebsd box, the others 
 lag behind a few. But this phenomenon also occurs in netbsd with bash2 
 (tested with 2.05b-p7), so it doesn't seem to be a bash 3.0 issue.
 
 Br,
 Jussi
 
 On 30.3.2005, at 02:51, Thomas Klausner wrote:
 
 > On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 02:49:38AM +0300, Jussi Liukkonen wrote:
 >> In darwin7, redhat9 linux, solaris8/9, or freebsd4, there never is an
 >> extra space or redraw issues using the same bash, terminal and PS1 
 >> (all
 >> the abovementioned machines are in the same NIS/NFS cluster, so they
 >> see the same ~/.profile). Which leads me to suspect the netbsd
 >> adaptation and/or libraries.
 >
 > Just for the record:
 > The bash versions you're comparing against all have the
 > post-3.0 patches 1-16 applied?
 >  Thomas
 >
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