[Leaf-devel] Re: [BusyBox] gzip broken in 0.60.3 ?

[Jacques Nilo]

> > from the busybox-0.60.3 directory I typed:
> > ./busybox tar -c docs | ./busybox gzip > docs.tgz
> > Broken pipe
> > If I replace gzip.c by the code in 0.60.2 everything seems to work fine.
> > I have not tried that on a 2.1 or 2.2 based machine.
> 
> It looks like you now need to specify either the "-c" option or use "-" as
> a filename to have gzip write to stdout.
The "-" option does the trick. That was in the Changelog :-(
> > Also halt/reboot do not work for me (they did not work in 0.60.2 either)
> 
> Are you using BusyBox's init?  That still seems to be a requirement to get
> halt/poweroff/reboot to work as expected.
OK that must be it. I am not using bbox init.
Thks Scott
Jacques