[Toybox] [PATCH] cp: fix -D (--parents)

[Jarno Mäkipää]

I know you are busy and backlog grows, but friendly reminder that this
patch is still here.


-Jarno

On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 9:31 PM enh <enh at google.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 3:40 AM Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
> >
> > Sorry, flew back from Japan to Austin on tuesday am I'm still deep in the grip
> > of jetlag, and buried about 5 todo items deep.
> >
> > Lemme try to get the patch fuzz fix committed, and then track down the use after
> > free in config2help, and then I can do this before getting back to the mkroot
> > and toolchain stuff from https://landley.net/notes.html#18-02-2020 and then I'd
> > think maybe I could get back to finishing the toysh variable expansion plumbing
> > (where did I leave off... I need to unify the quote traversal logic so I don't
> > have to teach two different places that $((echo hello) | wc) parses as $( ( ) )
> > and not $(( )), but I got distracted from that by implementing the "!" command
> > which is like ":" but doesn't have a base command name I can feed to NEWTOY()
> > and I can't do an OLDTOY() without a NEWTOY(), so there's design work...)
> >
> > But it'll be monday by then and I should do $DAYJOB stuff again.
> >
> > (While I'm at it, I need to figure out why ifconfig in mkroot called from toysh
> > is saying "ifconfig: bad argument '.0.2.15'" (is that a toysh bug or an ifconfig
> > bug), oh and I want to add xattr support to tar before the next release, which
> > is a month overdue. And I finished setting up the local debug environment for
> > the README->README.md conversion but didn't _do_ the conversion because I
> > haven't learned the new markup yet. Oh and md5sum is throwing a broken warning
> > with gcc 9 I can't typecast away so I need to turn a memset() into a for loop so
> > gcc can't understand what I'm doing enough to complain about it (I'm blanking
> > the second half of a struct after calculating the hash, I sorted the members so
> > this does what I want and yes it's intentional)),
>
> it might be more obvious to both machines and humans if you add a
> `struct state {}` around the stuff you want to clear?
>
> > I wanted to make mount use
> > block2mtd with jffs2.img, swapon -a, test should learn the ~= regex match, the
> > can of worms that is faq.html...)
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > (P.S. I'm sorry I haven't reproduced
> > https://github.com/landley/toybox/issues/170 , yes I should get back to
> > https://github.com/landley/toybox/issues/166 , is
> > https://github.com/landley/toybox/issues/164 still active?)
>
> somehow i hadn't seen 164 until now... but now i have, yes, that's
> reproducible for me too. i've sent a patch (and commented on the bug
> itself).
>
> > On 2/21/20 11:00 AM, Jarno Mäkipää wrote:
> > > ping
> > >
> > > On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 2:52 PM Jarno Mäkipää <jmakip87 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> add test for -D
> > >> fix b/c/d/FILE not copying into a/ with -D option
> > >>
> > >> github.com/landley/toybox/issues/165
> > >> ---
> > >>  tests/cp.test   | 7 +++++++
> > >>  toys/posix/cp.c | 7 +++++--
> > >>  2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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