Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 11:49:10 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net> To: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Joerg Wunsch <joerg@freefall.freebsd.org>, FreeBSD-Current Mailing List <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/cpio copyin.c Message-ID: <199603191849.LAA04511@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <9603191627.AA32692@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> References: <199603182308.PAA10754@freefall.freebsd.org> <9603191627.AA32692@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
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> > Modified: gnu/usr.bin/cpio copyin.c > > Log: > > Fix an infinite loop for empty files in the archive, and handle > > sparsely stored linked files correctly. > > Perhaps it's again time to look at implementing a cpio interface to > pax(1) so that we can get rid of the duplicate functionality? (pax > already knows how to read cpio archives.) And tar as well. I believe BSDi uses pax for both cpio and tar in their releases. Nate
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