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Date:      Mon, 26 May 2008 12:50:13 -0700
From:      Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@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:  <483B1475.7000500@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <483B1342.2030705@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <200805261715.m4QHFZUK070554@repoman.freebsd.org> <20080526172717.GA93432@freebsd.org> <483AFE87.6020103@freebsd.org> <483B1342.2030705@FreeBSD.org>

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Doug Barton wrote:
> Colin Percival wrote:
>> 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?

Yes, but as security officer, I have to support libarchive anyway. :-)

> That's not to impugn Tim's work, I just hate fuzzy thinking, especially
> from the security officer. :)

The thinking wasn't fuzzy, the explanation was. :-)

Colin Percival



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