Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 21:50:31 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett A. Wollman) Cc: joerg@freefall.freebsd.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/cpio copyin.c Message-ID: <199603192050.VAA03933@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <9603191627.AA32692@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett A. Wollman" at Mar 19, 96 11:27:00 am
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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. ;-)
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