mounting a loopback file from a link fails with busybox 1.2.1
Natanael Copa
natanael.copa at gmail.com
Tue Aug 8 19:57:41 UTC 2006
On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 20:35 +0000, Yann Le Doaré wrote:
> Yes, it fixes it.
>
> Good job Rob !
> Le lundi 07 août 2006 à 20:57 -0400, Rob Landley a écrit :
> > On Monday 07 August 2006 2:26 pm, Yann Le Doaré wrote:
> > > Hi, I have a problem with busybox 1.2.1 (1.0.1 relase is OK for that) :
> > > When I want to mount a lookback file from a link, I have the "Block
> > > device required" error.
> >
> > Sigh. Darn it. It's using lstat() instead of stat. Why was I doing that...?
> > In case of a dead symlink, which is treated as a file not found. But that's
> > probably the behavior we _want_, so...
> >
> > Try svn 15788?
> > http://busybox.net/downloads/patches/svn-15788.patch
> >
> > > ./busybox mount /tmp/testfslnk /mnt/floppy/ -o loop
I'd say this is a candidate for 1.2.2.
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Natanael Copa
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