Bug 173459

Summary:	keychain does not work with busybox mesg builtin
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Roy Marples (RETIRED) <uberlord>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Keychain Team <keychain>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Change mesg to message

Description Roy Marples (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-04-05 11:59:12 UTC

busybox shell defines the mesg builtin. As it's builtin, it cannot be overriden by a function.

Comment 1 Roy Marples (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-04-05 12:00:03 UTC

Created attachment 115502 [details, diff]
Change mesg to message

An alternative would be to use _mesg.

Comment 2 Roy Marples (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-06-29 09:29:40 UTC

Can't replicate this anymore - may have been a busybox bug.