[Toybox] How do I tell cyanogenmod they're wrong?
Rob Landley
rob at landley.net
Sun May 29 20:33:32 PDT 2016
Browsing through the cyanogenmod repository. Since they never submitted
patches to me I'm not going to copy their stuff verbatim (technically
it could be under a different license), but I'd like to address their
issues in mainline (modulo the pending stuff), and I get to this:
http://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/131295/
commit b90823e298988ff365cdf8e6d7c17687c3897d55
Author: Scott Mertz <scott at cyngn.com>
Date: Tue Feb 2 14:40:31 2016 -0800
Don't exit with failure code when cp ownership preservation fails
POSIX spec states that it is unspecified whether '-p' prints errors
to stderr when preserving ownership fails. GNU coreutils implementation
does not write anything to stderr when this fails. Additionally,
'-a' is only specified in GNU coreutils & specifies nothing
is to be written to stderr in the case of failure. Switch the
implementation to align with GNU coreutils while still satisfying
POSIX.
OPO-358
Change-Id: Ibb7c94fbf553a178b3f88a724ef6f737275a4205
I tried to pull up the OPO-358 thing to see what the original bug
report was, but it requires a login to view it:
https://jira.cyngn.com/browse/OPO-358
So I tested it myself, and they're _wrong_:
dd if=/dev/zero of=vfat.img bs=1M count=1
mkfs.vfat vfat.img
mkdir vfat
sudo /bin/bash
toybox mount vfat.img vfat
And then when I go:
# cp -a todo vfat/
cp: failed to preserve ownership for ‘vfat/todo/attachment.bin.4’: Operation not permitted
cp: failed to preserve ownership for ‘vfat/todo/attachment-0002.bin’: Operation not permitted
cp: failed to preserve ownership for ‘vfat/todo/netstat.patch’: Operation not permitted
cp: failed to preserve ownership for ‘vfat/todo/githash.patch’: Operation not permitted
cp: failed to preserve ownership for ‘vfat/todo/expr.patch’: Operation not permitted
...
The stock ubuntu 14.04 vesion is giving warnings about
inability to preserve ownership...?
Rob
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