Package: busybox Version: 1:1.30.1-7+b1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream patch
Hey. Since it's unclear whether and when upstream will react and how long it then takes that this actually lands in Debian, could you possibly consider to cherry pick the patch I provided at: https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=14241 for inclusion in the Debian package? The issue is basically, that uudecode is mandated by POSIX to consider /dev/stdout as a special symbol (and not a file) that causes output written to standard output (and not to whichever file the uuENcoded data indicates. Under normal user space this wouldn't be that much of an issue, since /dev/stdout exists and is a symlink to /proc/self/fd/1. But within the initramfs, this symlink doesn't sem to exist, so any output that should go to stdout would actually go to that file (or cause error if that's not writable). I should also note, that the sharutils version of uudecode behaves correctly and completely ignores any file /dev/stdout if it exists. Thanks, Chris.
