Package: busybox Version: 1:1.22.0-8 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
probably the problem is in the mainstream but it affect also Debian. * What led up to the situation? I was trying to find a shell way to check if a directory is empty * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? I created a chroot with only busybox and the libs needed (as shown by ldd) to be sure it is using only busybox commands. sudo chroot chrootdir /bin/busybox sh created a shell function: isempty() { [ "$(find "$1" -name "?*" | dd bs=$((${#1}+3)) count=1 2>/dev/null)" = "$1" ] ; } mkdir /test && /test/.x while [ 1 ] ; do if ! isempty /test ; then echo error ; break ; else echo not empty ; fi ; done run it few times run 1 to 3 exit immediatly with error run 4 show a non emtpy then error run 5 show 9 non empty then error (nobody removed or added files in /test) also running manually the command below show different results from time to time find /test -name "?*" | dd count=1 2>/dev/null * What was the outcome of this action? output truncated randomically, seem by line ending, when is wrong show only the first line. * What outcome did you expect instead? always the same predictable full output of find. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages busybox depends on: ii libc6 2.19-10 busybox recommends no packages. busybox suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org