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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bde@zeta.org.au, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Subject: Re: Hmmmm!  New error encountered with cpio while building root.flp
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>> There is no problem reading.  cpio now refuses to copyout files that it
>> can't handle.

>Okay, good.  So the problems will all happen during the builds which
>means worse case we end up missing bits, and in the case above all
>the bits :-(.

There will be no problem unless you ignore the error output.  I didn't
make the error fatal because that would be inconsistent with cpio's
handling of worse errors.  cpio should continue but exit with a nonzero
status like tar does.

Bruce