Bug#181812: busybox-cvs: find applet doesn't return the same files then busybox

[Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.cmu.edu>]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 12:01:34AM +0100, Thorsten Sauter wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 02:48:05PM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote:
> > The shell performs glob expansion, not the command.  Are you sure that
> > /dev/discs/disc0/disc existed when you tested busybox-cvs?
> 
> true. sorry about this, it's maybe an ash problem and not a bug in the
> find applet, but it concerns to busybox-cvs.
> 
> The directory /dev/discs/disc0 exist, and the file /dev/discs/disc0/disc
> exist also. But /dev/discs/disc0 is an symbolic link into /dev/ide/....
> I can simply try this with booting the d-i netimage and the don't select
> busybox-cvs in anna and the other time select it.
> 
> Mysteriously an older version (round about dec '02) of busybox-cvs
> works.

Ah.  debian-installer normally uses dash.  busybox-cvs (but not
busybox) enables ash, which overwrites dash and causes the shell
inconsistency.  So busybox-cvs should disable ash.

Matt
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