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?
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