Bug#4980: libc.so.5.4.7 breaks mcopy from ext2fs to win95
'Hal Brand wrote:'
>
>>Hal Brand writes:
>>> With libc.so.5.4.7, "mcopy myfile.txt f:/" fails. Reverting to libc.so.5.2.18
>>> allows mcopy to work. Interestingly enough, "mdir f:" works with
>>> both 5.4.7 and 5.2.18!
>>
>>Strange. I never experienced problems with that. Could you track down the
>>problem in mcopy? I'd really like to know which function is reporting this.
>
>Looks like I can't track it down. I tried, but with no success. I fetched
>the latest sources, configured, compiled, and tested - no problems
>with libc.so.5.4.7. My best *guess* at this point is a change in a symbolic
>constant rendering any version compiled a while ago unviable with the
>new library. However, this probably means that the mtools package should
>be updated.
Did you try a vfat filesystem? I have no problems with mtools-3.0-5
under libc5-5.4.7-4 which I just installed now that we have decided to
use it (but I don't use any vfat filesystems).
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