On Tuesday 11 September 2007 23:13, Alexander Kriegisch wrote: > I am sending this answer to the list again, because it was my initial > mistake that I sent the first copy of my last message to your address > instead of to the list. > > Sorry, Denys, I was never talking about the scenario you are mentioning, > really just about overwriting an existing character device by a regular > file, so it gets its contents. No more, no less. And I still insist that > it is fair to expect that this will work. I am not talking about copying > a device onto something else and not about copying recursively either. > Only this: > > cp /regular/file /character/device > > Without unlinking the device before copying the source file into it. It > is so straightforward it almost hurts. ;-) Why on earth should this not > work by default (without tweaking the source code)?
It works now. I fixed it after your first complaint. -- vda _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list busybox@busybox.net http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/busybox