In article <200110131337.f9DDbN907465@vs4090a.>,
 <kwellsch@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>>Number:         14238
>>Category:       port-vax
>>Synopsis:       /bin/cp on my VAX, built from -current, produces zero length files

>>Description:
>My last build, circa Sept 20th broke when I rebooted it this
>week to build -current.  I then discovered, that the few /etc
>files I had copied on the previous build were of zero length.
>I track this to /bin/cp and ended up using "tar" to do copies.


hi-

    yes, this is a compiler bug.  i posted to port-vax about it in this
message:

	http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-vax/2001/09/10/0010.html


as far as i know, no one is working to fix this bug.   until it is
fixed it isn't possible to run a -current on vax without hacking the 
source tree.

chuck