On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Joakim Tjernlund <[email protected]> wrote: > 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?
Yes. (however, I personally think it's better to use cat, not cp, for the operation you are trying to perform) _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
