[OE-core] [PATCH] busybox: Guard against interrupted compiles

[Richard Purdie]

On Mon, 2017-01-23 at 13:56 +0100, Mario Domenech Goulart wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 23 Jan 2017 12:35:52 +0000 Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at lin
> uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Mon, 2017-01-23 at 12:26 +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc
> > > b/meta/recipes-
> > > core/busybox/busybox.inc
> > > index 1f4a48c..f247e8d 100644
> > > --- a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc
> > > +++ b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc
> > > @@ -141,6 +141,10 @@ do_compile() {
> > >  	unset CFLAGS CPPFLAGS CXXFLAGS LDFLAGS
> > >  	if [ "${BUSYBOX_SPLIT_SUID}" = "1" -a x`grep
> > > "CONFIG_FEATURE_INDIVIDUAL=y" .config` = x ]; then
> > >  	# split the .config into two parts, and make two busybox
> > > binaries
> > > +		if [ -e .config.org ]; then
> > > +			# Need to guard again an interrupted
> > > do_compile - restore any backup
> > > +			cp .config.orig .config
> > > +		fi
> > I have fixed the typo...
> Wouldn't it be better to have something like
> 
>    cp .config.orig .config || true
> 
> instead, to prevent race conditions?

Prevent which race condition? I'd hope at this point we're the only
thing touching the .config file?

Cheers,

Richard