[Toybox] [BUG] tar cannot handle files in non-writable dirs

[Rob Landley]

On 9/15/25 11:59, Rob Landley wrote:
> I composed this forever ago and never clicked "send", but lkml.iu.edu 
> came back and I got less depressed about the state of the linux 
> community, so...

I mean not THAT much less depressed, the second hit googling "toybox 
aosp" is 
https://medium.com/@mmohamedrashik/toybox-in-aosp-create-custom-adb-commands-90d53ac92a08 
which is CLEARLY ai-generated slop aping 
https://landley.net/toybox/code.html#adding and it looks like a 
taskrabbit may have tidied it up a little, but:

A) there already IS a toys/examples/hello.c

B) The "new" one doesn't even have a NEWTOY() line, or the entire 
(functional!) comment block at the top. It CAN'T WORK.

And yet: second google hit, ranking even before google's AOSP source 
(which is what I was searching for, so I could check if they'd pulled 
the fixes that meta guy hadn't noticed went in a week ago, and... every 
branch listed at 
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/toybox/ including 
master/main is 6 months stale. I'm a bit confused why google.com 
addresses are posting here at all if they're not consuming the output, 
but I guess it's just that AOSP is a proprietary project no longer being 
published.)

*shrug* I miss Google. Oh well...

Rob

P.S. Don't get me started on https://lwn.net/Articles/1035727/ which is 
very much NOT obsolete in the embedded space. I'm sure it's just a 
coincidence that armv7-a was released in 2005 and patents only last 20 
years so his employer is now concerned about competing against generic 
clones, no other possible reason to talk about that now... Ahem: good 
news. Focus on good news...