On 5/23/07, Alexander Kriegisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > BB 1.4.2, mipsel > > wget http://www.tecchannel.de/download/432967/etherwake yields a file > with a wrong size, which when made executable and executed, throws an error: > > > $ wget http://www.tecchannel.de/download/432967/etherwake > > Connecting to www.tecchannel.de [217.111.81.70:80] > > etherwake 100% |***...***| 248 KB 00:00:00 ETA > > $ ls -l etherwake > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 254290 May 22 09:46 etherwake > > The real size would be 631820 bytes. Now the really strange part begins. > When viewing the wrong-sized file in mcview, for example, and scrolling > to the end, the real size in bytes is shown in the info line on the top > of the screen. > > Now is *this* strange? I can reproduce it on my box with kernel > 2.6.13.1. Another user complained about it on a box with a 2.4 kernel. > > Oh, by the way: Tweaking the command line in this dirty way > > > wget http://www.tecchannel.de/download/432967/etherwake dummy > > results in a correct download. Huh?!??
Huh indeed. What difference do you see in full, unabbreviated strace like this one? strace -s 99999 -o strace.log busybox wget http://www.tecchannel.de/download/432967/etherwake with and without that "dummy" param? _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/busybox
