cpio: need to fix this

[Rob Landley]

On Thursday 01 September 2005 10:19, Charles C. Bennett, Jr. wrote:
> Hi Rob -
>
>  The thing that was there didn't do anything except throw up it's hands
> and give up.
>
>  Let me put together some analysis to show you what this will actually
> cost you.  Note that it's quite a bit tighter than what exists in the
> GNU cpio code to solve the same problem.

I can certainly believe that. :)

I'm not against it, and I'd love to see the analysis.  Mostly I'm thinking 
this is big enough that it should probably have its own CONFIG_FEATURE to 
chop it out for those who don't need it.

I'm also curious if there's a way to put it into the shared archive 
infrastructure, although my one look at the shared archive infrastructure so 
far involved me making up a patch to delete two files that had no reason to 
exist.  (And I may just go ahead and apply that if nobody comments on it for 
long enough.  That's the easy way to get feedback... :)

Rob