cpio: need to fix this

[Charles C. Bennett, Jr.]

Here you go...  see attachment.
Comments gratefully accepted.

ccb

On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 19:56 -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> 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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Charles C. Bennett, Jr. <ccb at acm.org>
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