Apparently upstream coreutils "cp -n" changed between 9.1 and 9.2, and the
Debian maintainers reverted the change temporarily(?) and also added the
"non-portable" error.
In coreutils 9.1 and older, "cp -n" quietly skipped a file if the
destination existed, but as of 9.2, it instead prints an
On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 8:50 AM Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 6/4/22 7:12 PM, Rob Landley wrote:
> >
> > P.S. Currently I'm trying to work out the sequencing of redirects vs
> > $(subshells) because these work:
> >
> > $ bash -c $'if true; then cat; fi << EOF\none two\nEOF'
> > one two
> > $ bash -c
On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 2:08 AM Rob Landley wrote:
> Also, Android.bp says to run ./regenerate.sh which isn't there when I "git
> clone
> https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/toybox; but _is_ there
> in the
> aosp full repo checkout I haven't updated since july, and I thought
On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 6:46 AM Rob Landley wrote:
> On 6/11/21 4:51 PM, Ryan Prichard wrote:
> > Yeah, I think my ideal would be for --help to apply to the last
> (sub)command
> > preceding it. e.g. When it appears after a subcommand name, it would be
> parsed
> > like any other subcommand
On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 7:05 PM Rob Landley wrote:
> On 6/9/21 9:00 PM, Ryan Prichard wrote:
> > It seems to have broken --help when invoking toybox explicitly:
>
> Because you asked it to. There's a reason it wasn't doing it from any
> position
> before.
>
> > $ ./toybox ls --help
> > usage.>
21-06-08 19:10 README
$ ./tar -c README > --help && ./tar -tvf --help
On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 4:46 PM Rob Landley wrote:
> On 6/8/21 9:11 PM, Ryan Prichard via Toybox wrote:
> > $ ls -l --help
> > ls: Unknown option 'help' (see "ls --help")
> >
&
$ ls -l --help
ls: Unknown option 'help' (see "ls --help")
I tend to add `--help` to the end of a command line that I'm constructing,
so I was surprised by toybox's requirement that `--help` be first. Maybe
toybox should be more accommodating?
Maybe it'd matter more with an alias, e.g.:
$ alias
No, it's fine with me.
-Ryan
On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 5:38 PM Rob Landley wrote:
> On 5/14/20 6:48 PM, Ryan Prichard via Toybox wrote:
> > FWIW, the GNU "uptime -s" reports my seconds as 31, whereas busybox and
> toybox
> > alternate between 29 and 30.
>
>
FWIW, the GNU "uptime -s" reports my seconds as 31, whereas busybox and
toybox alternate between 29 and 30.
$ uptime -s
2020-05-11 13:58:31
$ for i in $(seq 5); do sleep 0.5; busybox uptime -s; /x/toybox/toybox
uptime -s; done
2020-05-11 13:58:30
2020-05-11 13:58:30
2020-05-11 13:58:29
On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 3:27 PM Rob Landley wrote:
> Right now toys/posix/ls.c only puts one space between filenames in -C or
> -x mode
> (which is the default output), and I have a todo item to increase that to 2
> spaces (which is what other implementations do). The reason is I
> misunderstood
It looks like coreutils and busybox allow only 2 args with -T. Do we need
to diagnose this?
touch A B
ln -sfT A B L
ln: extra operand 'L'
busybox ln -sfT A B L
ln: -T accepts 2 args max
toybox ln -sfT A B L
ls -l L
lrwxrwxrwx 1 rprichard primarygroup 1 Sep 25 13:38 L -> B
With this patch, ln
On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 5:51 AM Rob Landley wrote:
> On 8/6/19 5:08 PM, Ryan Prichard wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 1:56 PM Rob Landley > <mailto:r...@landley.net>> wrote:
> >
> > On 8/5/19 7:40 PM, Ryan Prichard via Toybox wrote:
> > >
On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 8:59 AM enh via Toybox
wrote:
> ... (but maybe not. there are pros and cons
> either way, and neither is ideal. and i'm guessing that Ryan's mention
> of EACCES means that he's seen that problem with losetup too.)
>
I've only seen the ENOENT error, on Android, and I'm
On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 1:56 PM Rob Landley wrote:
> On 8/5/19 7:40 PM, Ryan Prichard via Toybox wrote:
> > I think this patch fixes a race I noticed, but in practice I was hitting
> a
> > different race. After LOOP_CTL_GET_FREE had created a new loop device,
> losetup
&
I think this patch fixes a race I noticed, but in practice I was hitting a
different race. After LOOP_CTL_GET_FREE had created a new loop device,
losetup tried to open /dev/block/loopXXX before the device file existed,
failing with ENOENT:
strace on failure:
...
openat(AT_FDCWD,
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