cp bug?
Kevin Holland
khollan at daktronics.com
Fri Mar 28 14:44:18 UTC 2008
You have to use something like
cat myfile > /dev/mtdblock/1
because you don't have a filesystem mounted to that mtdblock I'm
assuming. If there is a filesystem you would mount it then copy the
file to the mountpoint.
Kevin
On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 15:36 +0100, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> I just tried to "cp /dev/mtdblock1 myfile" and I got
> a copy of the mtdblock1 file, not the contents:
> > ls -l myfile
> brw-r----- 1 root root 31, 1 Mar 28 15:33 myfile
>
> Someone also mentioned problems copy files from /proc that has a zero
> file size, i.e, it seemed like bb cp stats the file to get the size and
> the copies that many bytes. Files in /proc don't always report correct
> file size.
>
> bb v1.7.3
>
> Jocke
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