On Friday 28 March 2008 16:22, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 09:44 -0500, Kevin Holland wrote:
> > You have to use something like 
> > cat myfile > /dev/mtdblock/1
> > because you don't have a filesystem mounted to that mtdblock I'm
> > assuming.  If there is a filesystem you would mount it then copy the
> > file to the mountpoint.
> > Kevin
> 
> Yeah, I know the cat trick works but so should cp too, I think. Earlier
> I used GNU cp and that worked like that. Compare with symlinks, cp
> copies the contents, not the symlink itself(unless -d or -P is given)

I am trying to make cp match coreutils.
Question: logically, when I do

cp /dev/device new_file

what mode should new_file get?
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vda
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