On Wed, 2021-10-06 at 16:00 +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Package: busybox > Version: 1:1.30.1-7+b1 > Severity: normal > Tags: upstream patch > > > Hey. > > Since it's unclear whether and when upstream will react and how long it then > takes that this actually lands in Debian, could you possibly consider to > cherry pick the patch I provided at: > https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=14241 > > for inclusion in the Debian package? > > > The issue is basically, that uudecode is mandated by POSIX to consider > /dev/stdout as a special symbol (and not a file) that causes output written > to standard output (and not to whichever file the uuENcoded data indicates. > > Under normal user space this wouldn't be that much of an issue, since > /dev/stdout exists and is a symlink to /proc/self/fd/1. > > But within the initramfs, this symlink doesn't sem to exist, so any output > that should go to stdout would actually go to that file (or cause error > if that's not writable). [...]
This is bug #981302 (which I thought we'd actually fixed already). I
don't think busybox needs to change.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
The obvious mathematical breakthrough [to break modern encryption]
would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.
- Bill Gates
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