Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 19:51:41 +1000 From: Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cpio incorrectly dereferencing symlinks Message-ID: <4344F3AD.3010503@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20051005054059.GA25393@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20051005054059.GA25393@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: >The new cpio (invoked by cpio -dump) copies symlinks by dereferencing >them, i.e. copying the files they point to, instead of the symlinks >themselves. This is a regression. > This should be fixed now. Thanks for the report. Tim
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