Can we instead add a workaround to the build tree? Where is cp /dev/null coming from anyway? Perhaps this can be patched to touch the target file.
On 9/22/20, Alan Somers <asom...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 2:48 PM Kyle Evans <kev...@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 3:49 PM Alan Somers <asom...@freebsd.org> wrote: >> > >> > Author: asomers >> > Date: Fri Sep 11 20:49:36 2020 >> > New Revision: 365643 >> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/365643 >> > >> > Log: >> > cp: fall back to read/write if copy_file_range fails >> > >> > Even though copy_file_range has a file-system agnostic version, it >> still >> > fails on devfs (perhaps because the file descriptor is non-seekable?) >> In >> > that case, fallback to old-fashioned read/write. Fixes >> > "cp /dev/null /tmp/null" >> > >> >> Hi, >> >> Any objection to adding a quick UPDATING entry for this? I'm seeing >> occasional reports of this breakage as recent as today on IRC from >> folks that were a little bit thrown off by this because it throws up >> fairly far into the build and looks like a stand build regression >> instead of a cp regression. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Kyle Evans >> > > No objection. Can you suggest the proper wording? > _______________________________________________ > svn-src-...@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > -- Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik gmail.com> _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"