On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 18:04 +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> 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?

Should be same as for cp file1 file2.

 Jocke
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