From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 26 20:11:49 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 879341065734 for ; Mon, 26 May 2008 20:11:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx24.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8E478FC13 for ; Mon, 26 May 2008 20:11:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 24081 invoked by uid 399); 26 May 2008 19:56:23 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO lap.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 26 May 2008 19:56:23 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <483B1342.2030705@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 12:45:06 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080525) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Colin Percival References: <200805261715.m4QHFZUK070554@repoman.freebsd.org> <20080526172717.GA93432@freebsd.org> <483AFE87.6020103@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <483AFE87.6020103@freebsd.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 OpenPGP: id=D5B2F0FB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, Roman Divacky , Tim Kientzle , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/cpio Makefile bsdcpio.1 cmdline.c config_freebsd.h cpio.c cpio.h cpio_platform.h err.c matching.c matching.h pathmatch.c pathmatch.h src/usr.bin/cpio/test Makefile main.c test.h test_0.c test_basic.c test_format_newc.c ... X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 20:11:49 -0000 Colin Percival wrote: > Roman Divacky wrote: >>> Initial commit of bsdcpio 0.9.11b. >> great! thnx a lot. >> >> can you please summarize what are the advantages/differences from gnu-cpio? > > The BSD license is one advantage; but the fact that this 1766 lines of C code > compared to gnu-cpio's 6994 lines of C code is in my opinion far more important > (the difference being largely because bsdcpio uses libarchive, of course). Shouldn't that total be 1,766 lines of code for the front end, plus N lines of code from libarchive? That's not to impugn Tim's work, I just hate fuzzy thinking, especially from the security officer. :) Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection