[BusyBox] /bin/cp and special files
Jim Treadway
jim at stardot-tech.com
Thu Sep 12 19:13:03 UTC 2002
I just noticed that cp calls mknod if the source file is a device file or
socket, mkfifo if the source file is a FIFO, and symlink if the source
file is a symlink.
In other words, the destination file ends up being the same type as the
source file instead of a new regular file.
I'm not sure what the "correct" behavior, but Busybox behaves differently
from my Red Hat boxes.
Just curious if there is a reason for this...
Jim
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