Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]> wrote on 2011/12/21 13:08:30: > > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Joakim Tjernlund > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Recently installed bb 1.19.3 (gentoo) on our ppc target. Today I discovered > > that cp vmlinux /dev/mtdblock5 dosn't work. The device file is removed and > > a new plain file is created instead. > > Feels like a bb bug, comments? > > config FEATURE_NON_POSIX_CP > bool "Non-POSIX, but safer, copying to special nodes" > default y > help > With this option, "cp file symlink" will delete symlink > and create a regular file. This does not conform to POSIX, > but prevents a symlink attack. > Similarly, "cp file device" will not send file's data > to the device. (To do that, use "cat file >device")
Not 100% sure how to read this. I have CONFIG_FEATURE_NON_POSIX_CP=y already. Should I change to CONFIG_FEATURE_NON_POSIX_CP=n? Jocke _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
