On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Andrea Adami <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I was hit by a strange issue while benchmarking: I was copying some > large files to /dev/null and that was failing. > In fact, busybox cp foo /dev/null (and even cat foo > /dev/null) are > transforming the target in a regular file, with increasing size.At the > end devtmpfs was full... > > After som eresearch I discovered that strange Busybox configuration option > ENABLE_FEATURE_NON_POSIX_CP. > > Guess what? It is ENABLED in oe-core! > > http://cgit.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox/defconfig#n113 > > Now, do we really want it enabled by default? > > Cheers > > Andrea > > P.S. I agree with https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=27235 > ""...ill-conceived feature""
I add the WONTIFX bug: http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox-cvs/2011-February/032161.html It seems that cat should not have adverse effects, probably I tried cat once /dev/null was already b0rked (unlinked) by the non-posix cp. Regards Andrea -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
