It's not a bug.

[Bertrand Mollinier Toublet]

Rob Landley wrote:
> There are several "bugs" in the bug system that aren't bugs.  Will tar add 
> support for Sun's "pax" format?  Will we someday add an option to fsync() 
> before we close() to make sure the data from things like cat was actually 
> accepted by something and not just successfully fed into a pipe or the page 
> cache (at the expense of a significant performance hit)?
> 
> People enter these things as bugs.  And they're not bugs.  I'm trying to close 
> the bugs...
> 
Things can be different for the Busybox project, but it is not uncommon 
to file feature requests as bugs... In Bugzilla (at least version 2.6 
which I use at work), there is even a severity status named 
'enhancement' to be used just for that.
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Bertrand Mollinier Toublet | Sigma Designs, Inc.
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