cpio: need to fix this
Rob Landley
rob at landley.net
Tue Aug 30 00:56:40 UTC 2005
On Monday 29 August 2005 11:28, Charles C. Bennett, Jr. wrote:
> Hi All -
>
> Has anyone fixes in their back pocket for the fact that the cpio applet
> doesn't handle hard links gracefully? If not, does anyone mind if I
> generate a patch to archival/libunarchive/get_header_cpio.c using GNU
> cpio to crib the algorithm?
Go for it.
On an unrelated note, do we have any plans for a cpio create that's compatible
with initramfs in the 2.6 kernel? (Keeping in mind that the kernel _has_
a .c program that creates one of these suckers already as part of the build,
so it's not exactly a pressing need...)
> Thanks in Advance,
> ccb
Rob
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