On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 16:35 +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > On Friday 28 March 2008 15:36, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > > I just tried to "cp /dev/mtdblock1 myfile" and I got > > a copy of the mtdblock1 file, not the contents: > > > > > ls -l myfile > > brw-r----- 1 root root 31, 1 Mar 28 15:33 myfile > > Well, which behavior is correct is a question of taste. > POSIX is silent on this.
OK, my taste would be that it copies the file contents, just like it does for symlinks. Doesn't that make sense? > > > Someone also mentioned problems copy files from /proc that has a zero > > file size, i.e, it seemed like bb cp stats the file to get the size and > > the copies that many bytes. Files in /proc don't always report correct > > file size. > > Correct, That's why cp does not trust the size, it copies until EOF is seen: OK so I was misinformed, thanks. Has this always been like this? Jocke _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/busybox
