Re: BusyBox sed 'w' loses data on occasion

2022-01-03 Thread Alain Mouette
Tested here, Ubuntu 20.04: $  printf 'a\nb\n' | busybox sed -n -e '/a/w xxx' -e '/b/w xxx' ;cat xxx a $ uname -a Linux desktop 5.4.0-39-generic #43-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jun 19 10:28:31 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Em 01/01/2022 22:38, Paul Eggert escreveu: This bug in BusyBox 'sed'

Re: [PATCH] su: support denying accounts with blank password

2015-10-01 Thread Alain Mouette
Why would you want to completely disable root login? If it is a security feature, how can it be used? It can be interesting to avoid escalating priviledges, but then how to to administrative tasks? (assuming ssh root login is disabled too) Thanks, Alain On 01-10-2015 14:39, Denys Vlasenko

Re: coordinated compliance efforts addresses the issues of this thread

2012-09-09 Thread Alain Mouette
Em 09-09-2012 00:52, Mike Frysinger escreveu: On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Rich Felker wrote: The legal rights to kernel code of course belong to the kernel developers, who are actively working to undermine enforcement. some developers don't want to enforce, some do, and many don't care

Re: How to check if script invoked from main shell

2012-07-27 Thread Alain Mouette
What I usualy do is to have a command line parameter when it is invoked by another script or cron. This is easy to test as $1 Then if the script is called from the user there is no parameter (or different ones) I hope that this is possible in your case Alain Em 27-07-2012 05:20, Harald

Re: Copyright message for 1.20.2?

2012-07-12 Thread Alain Mouette
Em 12-07-2012 02:36, Tito escreveu: HI, maybe Copyright (C) 1998-2012 by the Busybox project developers and then adding a full list to the source package and to the website could be a solution. This is not good. In case of a court dispute, all copyright owners have to be present. So if you

Re: Copyright message for 1.20.2?

2012-07-12 Thread Alain Mouette
Em 12-07-2012 16:29, Bradley M. Kuhn escreveu: Alain Mouette wrote: This is not good. In case of a court dispute, all copyright owners have to be present. So if you want the copyright do be good for something, it has to be nominal! Alain, I'm not sure I understand your point. Any given

Re: prevent modprobe output

2011-10-06 Thread Alain Mouette
This should work: 21 /dev/null First you redirect error(2) do console(1)... Alain Em 10-01-2011 13:23, David Henderson escreveu: Is there a way to prevent modprobe from displaying information related to a driver being loaded? I'm stumped and have tried the following: modprobe -q e1000e

Re: Busybox and GPL

2010-08-06 Thread Alain Mouette
Could anyone *please* explain what was the violation exactly and what should they have done to comply with BusyBox's licence. Thanks for any information, this is important for me... Alain PS: sorry Walter Harms for the message to your address, no harm intended :) Em 06-08-2010 10:43, walter

Re: hwclock -w takes 24 seconds

2010-04-15 Thread Alain Mouette
Em 15-04-2010 04:11, Denys Vlasenko escreveu: 2. Linux kernel will attempt to update RTC at 500ms mark and not at a second mark. Do they known something better? Hmm, I didn't know that. Perhaps they thought this minimizes average error in setting RTC time. This makes sense. One problem in

Re: ls -l on Android device

2010-01-25 Thread Alain Mouette
Hi Tom, Could you put toghether some king of tutorial, or at least the basic steps to make BusyBox work on Android? This can be much usefull to anyone retracing your steps... (like me :) I plan to get an Android Phone soon) Thanks, Alain Tom Spear escreveu: On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:15