Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 12:45:06 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, Roman Divacky <rdivacky@FreeBSD.org>, Tim Kientzle <kientzle@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/cpio Makefile bsdcpio.1 cmdline.c config_freebsd.h cpio.c cpio.h cpio_platform.h err.c matching.c matching.h pathmatch.c pathmatch.h src/usr.bin/cpio/test Makefile main.c test.h test_0.c test_basic.c test_format_newc.c ... Message-ID: <483B1342.2030705@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <483AFE87.6020103@freebsd.org> References: <200805261715.m4QHFZUK070554@repoman.freebsd.org> <20080526172717.GA93432@freebsd.org> <483AFE87.6020103@freebsd.org>
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Colin Percival wrote:
> Roman Divacky wrote:
>>> Initial commit of bsdcpio 0.9.11b.
>> great! thnx a lot.
>>
>> can you please summarize what are the advantages/differences from gnu-cpio?
>
> The BSD license is one advantage; but the fact that this 1766 lines of C code
> compared to gnu-cpio's 6994 lines of C code is in my opinion far more important
> (the difference being largely because bsdcpio uses libarchive, of course).
Shouldn't that total be 1,766 lines of code for the front end, plus N
lines of code from libarchive?
That's not to impugn Tim's work, I just hate fuzzy thinking,
especially from the security officer. :)
Doug
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