From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 19 13:24:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA02404 for current-outgoing; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 13:24:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA02387 Tue, 19 Mar 1996 13:24:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id VAA18130; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 21:51:46 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA02651; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 21:51:46 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id VAA03933; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 21:50:31 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603192050.VAA03933@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/cpio copyin.c To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett A. Wollman) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 21:50:31 +0100 (MET) Cc: joerg@freefall.freebsd.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <9603191627.AA32692@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett A. Wollman" at Mar 19, 96 11:27:00 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Garrett A. Wollman wrote: > 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.) I've tried pax for the cited archive, and it proved to be even more broken (about the same as SysV cpio :-). So i decided to pick the cpio fix instead. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)