On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > I am not entirely sure that I am right doing do, > but in this case it's ugly enough that I do disagree. > > What do you think? Is it causing compat problems in real life?
It might. I suppose some people expect the same (sometimes broken) behaviour as gnu & posix, just because they're the authorities. And that's ok, except in this case I do agree with you, but I wouldn't be too surprized to hear it's a too intrusive change. > My point, being careful in running, for example, sed .... -i FILE > and taking care that FILE is not replaced by a malicious symlink, > is understandable. Agreed. > root usually doesn't do that in /home/joe anyway. Right. > But when root can't *just copy* a bunch of files to Joe's dir > without having nightmares about bad boy Joe is... stupid. > How is root supposed to do such a thing safely then?? Yes. > cp *can* take care of this. Why it does not? I must also admit I expected busybox cp to imitate that broken behaviour. > If people will convince me that this is a real problem for them, > I will change it. If it's just a crusade for standards... If noone else opposes the bb-cp behaviour, than it means it's ok. Moreover, it's now discussed and documented, sort of. Cheers, -- Cristian _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
