mounting a loopback file from a link fails with busybox 1.2.1

[Natanael Copa]

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