BusyBox Strikes Again?

[kel at otaku42.de (Kel Modderman)]

On Thursday 03 April 2008 05:39:13 Marco Amadori wrote:
> > mount()
> > {
> > 	# can loop mount files, klibc's mount cannot without first binding
> > 	# file to loop (block) device node with losetup
> > 	/bin/busybox mount "${@}"
> > 	return "${?}"
> > }
> 
> I was hit yesterday by this bug too and...this is not the case of loop 
> mounting; the "debug:" message above is misleading (and in fact the problem 
> is not mounting the  /dev/loop0 on //filesystem.squashfs, which is mounted, 
> but mounting a tmpfs), I'm debugging exactly that and I will report a fix 
> soon in a to be published git branch.
> 

loop mounting is just one example to highlight that klibc-utils/mount
is -ne to busybox/mount.

Another example is readlink, where klibc don't support -f option.

This may not even be the cause of this _specific_ bug, but I mention it anyway.

Thanks, Kel.