[pvrusb2] Problem with wintv-hvr-1950

[Bjorn Danielsson]

Roger <rogerx at sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> The old behavior of cp would try coping the device file to the new
> location, which would obviously fail.

I have used Unix cp for decades to truncate files: cp /dev/null foo,
where foo points to an already existing inode.

But I have seen both Unix and Linux distributions that introduce
default aliases in the shell, e.g. alias rm="/bin/rm -i" or
alias ls="/bin/ls -F". Perhaps you ran a shell that redefined
cp to be cp -R?

-- 
Bjorn Danielsson  <pvr-usb2 at dax.nu>